Lightsout

Well-known Stirling chef Nick Nairn was left battered and bruised after being attacked in the street.

Police confirmed that a 35-year-old man had been arrested and charged with assault in the aftermath of the incident – which happened in Aberdeen’s Union Street in the early hours of Friday December 22.

The 58-year-old, who in the early 1990s became the youngest Scottish chef to win a Michelin star, had just left an event at his cook school in the city.

He was walking down the road with Julia Forster, the operations manager at the school, when the attack happened.

And in the hours that followed the television star, from Port of Menteith, posted a picture of his swollen and bruised face to his 15,000 followers on Twitter.

In a message, he thanked the emergency services for their response to the shocking incident whilst reassuring fans he was fine despite the frightening ordeal he had suffered.

After the arrest was made over the weekend constable Alan Gordon of the North East Divisional Alcohol and Violence Reduction Unit (DAVRU), who led the investigation, said: “I would like to thank all those who have already come forward and urge anyone else who has information to get in touch on telephone number 101.” People living in Whins of Milton were left without electricity on Christmas night.

Power went out shortly after 8pm.

SP Energy Networks said that an outage was experienced in sections of the FK7 and FK8 postcode areas, and specifically in Johnston Street where there are around 40 homes, after a fault at one of their substations.

They were alerted at around 8.15pm and engineers quickly got to work.

Power was restored to most properties within half an hour and the problem was fully resolved, with electricity back in all homes, after 65 minutes.

A spokesperson for SP Energy Networks said: “We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused as a result of this incident.”