By Michael MacLeod THE ultimate house for the lazy gardener has gone on the market after its owners spent £9,000 on an ASTROTURF lawn. Without a lawnmower in sight, the three-bedroomed ground floor flat in Edinburgh’s West End barely needs any upkeep. And with weeding out the window, the £380,000 pad is being marketed as [...]
By Christine Lavelle SIR Sean Connery appears to have made a speedy recovery from a suspected fall which left him with a nasty gash on his head. The Bond star looked relaxed and mingled with fans in his home city tonight as the streets of Edinburgh lit-up with stars as the annual International Film Festival [...]
By Christine Lavelle SIKH TREATS: Scotland’s Catholic leader rolled up his sleeves and donned a tabard today as he helped out in a Sikh cafe kitchen today. Cardinal Keith O’Brien stopped in at Edinburgh’s Punjab’n Raosi Café – which translates as the Punjabi Women’s Kitchen – in a bid to unite faiths. Picture by Katielee [...]
By Cara Sulieman A CYCLIST has been left with such horrific injuries after a suspected hit and run that she has no idea what happened. The 27 year-old woman fractured her collar bone and damaged her head after the crash. Last night she was stable in hospital but police issued an appeal for witnesses in [...]
By Cara Sulieman YOUNG filmmakers will be rubbing shoulders with the stars this week as their creations hit the film festival. Schools across Edinburgh were asked to submit their drama, documentary and animation films to a competition that plays a staring role in the line up of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Over 140 [...]
By Cara Sulieman A MAN is fighting for his life after a collision between his motorbike and a lorry in Fife on Tuesday night. Police in Fife are now appealing for witnesses to the smash as they try and find out what happened. Emergency services were called out to Gilston House near Largoward after the [...]
By Paul Thornton A PAIR of fraudsters were caught using cloned cards to take out over £1,000 from an ATM by an off duty policeman. Hungarian and Romanian nationals Krisztan Racz, 31, and Horea Dumitru, 22, used laptops, mobile phones, memory cards and fake bank machine fascias to clone several cards before using them to [...]
By Martin Graham PETER Andre had ex-wife Jordan plastered yesterday – by covering up his ring tattoo of her name. The singer is in the middle of a series of agonising laser-removal jobs and sported a flesh-coloured band-aid over the ink at a book signing in Edinburgh yesterday. He said he hoped a Scottish girl [...]
By Martin Graham JUDY Murray says Scotland must adopt America’s “tennis culture” if anyone is to follow in her son Andy’s footsteps. She helped give out 7,500 mini tennis kits to school children in Edinburgh today. But the 50 year-old coach fears efforts to teach children tennis skills could be a waste of time because [...]
By Cara Sulieman SHOCKED colleagues of a cyclist who was killed in a tragic road accident at the weekend paid tribute to a “charismatic” and “popular” man today. Dr Kostas Tourlas died in the collision with a Fiat Ulysse near Kirkliston Sports Centre on Saturday. Workmates of the 37-year-old spoke of their “shock and disbelief” [...]
By Paul Thornton A BUSINESSMAN was gunned down on the steps of a casino over the £1m plus gambling debts of his high-flying financier son, a court has heard. Tony Demarco, 64, was blasted in the back of the head as he stood on the steps of the Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh on June [...]
By Martin Graham TWO unlikely TV stars have had their bacon saved and found a new home at a heritage centre in Livingston. Smokey and Streaky got their first taste of fame as cute little piglets on the BBC TV show Monty Halls’ Great Hebridean Escape where the presenter reared them to be eaten on [...]
By Cara Sulieman SCOTS scientists have made a breakthrough into the treatment of sleeping sickness. Boffins at the University of Edinburgh discovered how the sleeping sickness parasite lives inside the tsetse fly. And they hope that this means they will be able to develop more effective treatments for the disease. Up to 70,000 people in [...]
By Cara Sulieman A SHOCKED mum blasted a musical toy cow which seems to sing the word ‘sex’ as part of its jingle. It came as an udder shock to Jodie Cairns, 20, when she unwrapped Moosical Beads and it appeared to sing “learning colours and sex, yippee”. She and her partner Zac Walker, 20, [...]
By Cara Sulieman and Paul Thornton A DRIVER gave hope to motorists across the country today when he took on Edinburgh’s notorious parking wardens – and won. Range Rover-driving Johnny Higgins spotted his car being lifted onto the back of a flatbed lorry after overstaying a parking ticket by just 40 minutes. Threatened with a [...]
By Cara Sulieman AFTER a week in place, a sculpture has already been welcomed to the capital by being decked out in a bright pink bikini. The figure of a man – part of the new Antony Gormley ‘6 Times’ installation – had the luminous swimsuit tied round him at the weekend. He is one [...]
By Paul Thornton A MAN has been accused of causing the death of a cyclist by dangerous driving while drunk. Andrezej Stankiewicz, 42, is alleged to have hit the 37-year-old man in West Lothian on Saturday afternoon. The cyclist – who has not yet been named – died following an incident on Stirling Road, Kirkliston [...]
By Paul Thornton FORMER Hearts striker Christian Nade claims he gave two luxury cars – for which he is being chased in the courts for payment – to a motor museum. A finance company is suing the 25-year-old footballer for payment on two cars thought to be a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Cadilac Station Wagon [...]
By Michael MacLeod MICROPHONES dropped down toilets and tarmac damage caused by Top Gear are among £1million of insurance claims paid by the BBC in the past thee years. Compensation payouts for hundreds of incidents have cost the broadcaster the equivalent of more than 6,700 people’s TV licence fee payments. The bill includes £9,000 paid [...]
By Michael MacLeod WILLIAM Wallace’s passport could return north of the border, after the Scottish Government began research into relic. They have asked a team of medieval history experts to report on the significance of The Safe Conduct, a letter written by the French King to grant Wallace safe access to the Pope. It was [...]