Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.In the early 1980s, Edinburgh was awash with heroin and the spread of a new and deadly disease ensured the city would become known as the ‘Aids capital of Europe’.Street prostitution centred around the Leith area, with many women walking its streets to earn cash to feed their drug habit.City leaders were searching for a way to cope with these growing social problems and their liberal approach meant the sex