Greggs on a roll with off licence akeover deal

THE former Threshers off- licence on Lothian Road is set to be transformed into a Greggs.

The popular bakery chain already has a store in nearby Queensferry Street and Home Street, and two more at the West End in Dalry Road and Melville Street.

Lothian Road's former Threshers is the latest off- licence to disappear in recent months, following the collapse of the UK's largest chain, First Quench, last year.

Cheque Centre Group has applied to turn the former Haddows in Home Street into a money services store and there have been two separate bids to turn Victoria Wine stores in Morningside and Davidson's Mains into a coffee shop and takeaway respectively.

The former Wine Rack on High Street is now a tartan souvenir store.

However, three are still being run as off-licences after a group of former First Quench managers resurrected them under their new Vino chain.

They took over First Quench's three most successful stores on Broughton Street, Grange Loan and Comiston Road.