Flats horror

A DOG is to be destroyed after running wild in a block of flats, leaving five people in hospital.

The animal, believed to be a cross between an American pitbull and a Staffordshire terrier, escaped from its owner in Leith in the early hours of yesterday.

Police called to the scene at Cables Wynd House were said to have taken refuge in a bin chute cupboard before specialist dog handlers eventually contained the animal, below, known as Big Daddy.