By Alexander Lawrie A SCOTS teacher caught romping with one of her former pupils has been struck from the teaching register. Angela Dunning, 31, was said to have enjoyed a steamy clinch with schoolboy Scott Farrer, then only 17. She was branded “disgraceful and dishonourable” by the teaching bosses who have banned her from [...]
By Michael MacLeod CHEFS who served up food at Livingston Football Club are demanding to know who ate all the pies the struggling team were ordered to pay them £10,000 for. The First Division club are being chased by around 16 different firms for outstanding bills and have been late in paying players and backroom [...]
By Paul Thornton A BOGUS teenage travel agent who sold fake holidays on eBay has had his time behind bars extended. Nathan Hudson copied and pasted genuine holiday deals from legitimate travel firms before putting them up for auction on the popular website. He was just 19 years old when he started his scam and [...]
By Paul Thornton A BANK worker was sacked, lost her pension and has now been jailed after she admitted stealing £31,000 from the HBOS group. Carol Barclay, 45, was working as assistant manager at the Bank of Scotland branch in the Gyle Shopping Centre in Edinburgh when she stole £31,000 from customers’ accounts. She was [...]
By Cara Sulieman, Paul Thornton and Shaun Milne HATED former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin has had his plush Edinburgh mansion trashed by vandals. A prized Mercedes S600 parked in the grounds was also badly damaged in the dawn attack – just 24-hrs after it was revealed his former employers still [...]
By Karrie Gillett HOTEL chain Travelodge has launched a mobile phone service for customers to check vacancies while on the move. The newly-launched device will allow travellers to book a hotel room in three steps on a touch-screen Apple iPhone. The iBooker service can be downloaded for free giving users the opportunity to hunt for [...]
By Karrie Gillett THE MP who campaigned to free death row Scot Kenny Richey is travelling to Japan to discuss the country’s growing use of the death penalty. Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael visited Richey while he was facing execution in an American jail – where he spent 21 years on death row. [...]
By Cara Sulieman A POST Mortem examination is being carried out on the body of a Scots OAP found dead in a river three week after he first went missing. Jim Greig, 69, from Musselburgh, East Lothian, was reported missing when friends and family failed to hear anything from him after a night out. His [...]
By Cara Sulieman A FURNITURE maker hopes his latest designs will nail approval from the fashion critics next week – when his WOODEN kilt hits the fashion catwalks in New York. Anselm Fraser, 52, crafted the garment out of rough hessian material and wooden slats for the Dressed to Kilt fashion show at New York [...]
By Paul Thornton HUNDREDS of thousand of pounds worth of cannabis plants continue to be removed from a warehouse in West Lothian after firefighters stumbled on a massive drug farm. A Lothian and Borders fire crew were called to an industrial estate in Whitburn last Friday over reports of smoke coming from one of the [...]
By Cara Sulieman FIRE-FIGHTERS were battling a blaze at a new £170million facility being built at Longannet Power Station in Fife last night. The blaze broke out in an area next to the main power facility where a Flue Gas Desulphurisation Unit – a facility that will help capture sulphur gases – is currently being [...]
By Cara Sulieman THE FAMOUS Top Gun flying academy was inspired by Scottish flight instructors, a new book has revealed. The US Army gained its world-famous experience from instructors from Fleet Air Arm. In the early sixties instructors went across to Miramar airbase in California to help the Americans who were losing huge numbers of [...]
By Paul Thornton ONE of Scotland’s most notorious killers has died while serving his life sentence for murder. Bluebell Wood murderer, Brian Wilson, died in hospital on Monday, March 23 while he was serving time at HMP Saughton in Edinburgh. The 40-year-old was jailed for life at Glasgow High Court in 1986 after being found guilty [...]
By Paul Thornton A DAUGHTER threw a coffee table from the window of a high-rise flat during a furious bust-up with her mum. Tiffany Patterson, 20, launched the furniture from her Edinburgh home, sending it smashing onto the pavement below. Two shocked police officers who happened to be passing saw the table land just yards [...]
By Cara Sulieman A TOP Scots university boss will be giving evidence at a Parliamentary Committee on torture after years of campaigning to get his story heard. Craig Murray, the rector at Dundee University, has been speaking out about the use of torture to extract information for British intelligence since he left the Foreign Office [...]
By Alexander Lawrie SHAMED banking boss Sir Fred Goodwin is still receiving staff rate insurance to cover his £500,000 fleet of cars. The under-fire Goodwin walked off with a massive £16m pension, but RBS is still insuring his seven cars under an employee scheme. And the bank is even putting together a deal to slice [...]
By Alexander Lawrie FORMER telly favourite John Leslie has splashed out half a million pounds to get rid of his next door neighbour – after she complained about his plans for a roof terrace. The shamed star’s plans to convert an Edinburgh old folk’s home into four luxury flats complete with roof terrace were [...]
By Alexander Lawrie A LUCKY Scots bargain hunter is in line for a massive payout after discovering a rare Chinese vase in a box filled with bric-a-brac. The Tang vase has been estimated at around £120,000 and goes up for auction next month. The lucky punter from the Borders found the extremely rare 9th century [...]
By Paul Thornton COFFEE giants Starbucks have been hit with a litter rap after claims they left trade waste outside a Scottish branch. It is claimed the chain left bags of trash outside their popular coffee shop in Edinburgh’s Princes Street in August last year. The rubbish is said to have been left outside the [...]
By Paul Thornton A LONG-HAUL lorry driver who was caught with a stun-gun for the second time has been spared a jail sentence. Anthony McCrindle, 44, said he had bought the taser to protect himself from gangs and illegal immigrants while on jobs in continental Europe. Police found him snoozing in his car in Musselburgh, [...]