A SYRIAN baker who fled the civil after his shop and home were bombed is making pastries again for the first time in four years – at a Scottish cafe. Nour Taleb, whose family ran a pastry shop in Albab, 40 miles north of Aleppo, was forced to leave for Damascus in 2012 after heavy shelling devastated his home town.

From there, he took his wife and four children to a refugee camp in Jordan.

Now, four years after he last made pastries, Taleb has started baking again, after being resettled in Scotland last May.

Sold at The Loft Cafe and Bakery in Haddington, East Lothian, his tiny hand-made pastries are selling like hot cakes – at a rate of almost 600 a day.