Pictures by Stuart Cobley DOZENS of scooter riders descended upon Edinburgh this week to mark the opening of a stage version of the classic rock opera Quadrophenia. More than 40 riders met at Portobello Beach on Tuesday night before tearing through the city ahead of the four day run of the production at the Festival [...]
By Lauren Crooks WATCH the second part of our special Britain’s Got Talent feature on the remarkable rise of Scotland’s fastest-rising star: Susan Boyle. In the run-up to Saturday’s live final, Deadline Scotland is charting the life of Britain’s most amazing talent all this week – The Susan Boyle Story, Every Day, 6.30pm GMT.
By Paul Thornton A MAN claimed he wanted to use stun guns illegally ordered from the States as ornaments for his Edinburgh flat. Kaz MacDonald , 20, ordered three 10,000 volt ‘Cheetah’ stun-guns from an American firm for £150 earlier this year. But he was the one who got a shock when police arrived at [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE THE WORLD’S next Tiger Woods could have been on the course as over 400 of the world’s best junior golfers kicked off the US Kids Golf Championship in East Lothian yesterday. The sport’s best youngsters aged between five and 14 have travelled from 34 different countries to participate in the prestigious three-day [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE SCOTS pop singer Sandi Thom has spent the last month in Los Angeles trying to crack Hollywood. The I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker singer is all set to appear in an, as yet, un-named movie performing the ballad Ungrateful Heart, which is taken from her second album. The MacDuff-born songwriter [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy who was scarred for life after being attacked by a pet dog last week has required over 30 stitches to repair the damage, it has been revealed. Little Andrew Osborne was playing with his twin brother Matthew and his older sibling Jamie just yards from his front door when [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE A BRAVE father was forced to drop his terrified four-year-old daughter 15 feet to safety because he believed his home was about to blow up. Gareth Gray had to hurl his daughter McKenzie of his first floor living room window on Sunday evening after a blaze erupted in the flat below. Mr [...]
By Michael MacLeod STRUGGLING Scots businesses now owe the taxman a staggering £155million in overdue payments. And to stop more of them going under tax chiefs are now being forced into bailing out the 8,000 or so Scots firms affected by handing them a credit crunch lifeline of more time to settle. Glasgow companies top [...]
By Michael MacLeod RAMRAIDERS snatched £10,000 of booze and cigarettes after slamming a car into an award-winning shop. The four suspects have been branded “scum” by Ijaz Nazir, who owns Jazz Licensed Grocers in Edinburgh. He fears his beloved store is in danger of collapse after yesterday (Tuesday) morning’s raid, which saw a car crashing [...]
By Lauren Crooks TODAY marks the start of our special Britain’s Got Talent feature on the remarkable rise of Scotland’s fastest-rising star: Susan Boyle. In the run-up to Saturday’s live final, Deadline Scotland is charting the life of Britain’s most amazing talent all this week – The Susan Boyle Story, Every Day, 6.30pm GMT.
By Oliver Farrimond A VIOLENT criminal nicknamed “The Hawk” has turned himself in after being on the run for almost a week. The criminal, whose real name is Brian Martin, escaped on Monday May 18 from Castle Huntly Open Prison in Angus, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for firearms offences. Tayside Police reported [...]
By Oliver Farrimond HUNDREDS of angry students protested in Edinburgh today (mon) over proposed budget cuts to Edinburgh University’s modern languages teaching. Joined by Shirley Ann Somerville MSP and a host of university staff, a noisy crowd waving signs and banners gathered outside the university’s Old College, where officials were due to meet student representatives later in [...]
By Paul Thornton HEARTS defender Lee Wallace has appeared in court following an alleged gun threat at an Edinburgh nightclub. The 21-year-old, who recently won the club’s Young Player of the Year award, was arrested at Lava and Ignite nightclub in the capital’s West Tollcross in the early hours of Monday morning. It is [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE FORMER-CELTIC boss Gordon Strachan confided in his parents about his decision to leave the Glasgow club in the days leading up to the move. The under-fire manager quit as the manager yesterday (Mon) and has flown out on holiday to decide what his next career move will be. Some rumours suggest the [...]
By SHAUN MILNE A SCOTS courier firm faces rebranding its entire fleet – because of a Europe wide shortage of RED coloured vans. Eagle Couriers has been scouring the motor markets for weeks trying to source rare red coloured delivery vans after landing £3million in new contracts from communications giants BT and NHS Scotland. But [...]
By ALEXANDER LAWRIE SCOTS rocker Shirley Manson has admitted she will never become a Bond girl – because she feels she is too old. The talented singer-turned-actress has already gone down in 007 history when her band Garbage recorded the theme tune to the 1999 Bond blockbuster The World Is Not Enough. But Manson shot [...]
By Rory Reynolds SCOTLAND’S top lawyer ran a gruelling road race yesterday (Sunday) as a tribute to murder victim Moira Jones. Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini ran the seven and a half mile Dunblane Hydro Road Race to raise money for The Moira Fund, a charity set up to help families affected by violent deaths. Sources [...]
By Rory Reynolds A Glasgow schoolboy has uncovered scientific research that may help his mum battle MS – after getting inspiration from Hollywood blockbuster Braveheart. Ryan McLaughlin set up the campaign Shine on Scotland, after watching Mel Gibson as William Wallace give the famous battle speech in the 1995 hit. He said: “It was the [...]
By Cara Sulieman A SCOTTISH firm is set to make millions from a computer game based on Guantanamo Bay. And they have brought in Moazzam Begg – one of nine British Muslims held in the jail before being released in 2005 – to help them get it right. The Glasgow firm T-Enterprise hopes to make [...]
By Rory Reynolds A spin-off to British blockbuster Slumdog Millionaire is to be made by the BBC in India – and will be written by a Scottish GP. Bafta award-winning writer John Hodge – who is also a practicing doctor – will screen-write Six Suspects, a mystery thriller set in New Delhi. Hodge – who [...]