Flights were delayed and passengers faced queues of about two hours after check-in computers crashed at Scotland's busiest airport.

A hardware fault caused the computers to go down at Edinburgh Airport at about 7am on Saturday.

A spokesman for airport operator BAA said: "We had a slight issue this morning with the network which meant that we lost some computer services earlier this morning.

"It did not cause any cancellations or any great delays, but it did cause some queuing in the check in area between 7am and 9am.

"Our team were on it and following investigation it was found to be a hardware fault that was sorted quickly.

"We saw some flights delayed by about half an hour, and congestion in the check-in area which was cleared as soon as the fault was fixed."