Max the cat is snatched from outside his owner’s flat. A CAT-NAPPER has been caught on camera stealing a prized pet from outside its owner’s flat. Max, a valuable ten-year-old Russian Blue, was bundled into a car by a woman in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh while he was out for an evening run. But [...]
The Mecca bingo hall in Edinburgh has permission to build the outside smoking shelter A SCOTS bingo hall is to build a giant smoking shelter outside which will allow customers to have a cigarette while they play. Customers will be given handheld devices so that they can keep track of the numbers while they are [...]
Roger Gray was killed in March By Kevin Duguid A RETIRED lecturer who was killed in his upmarket Edinburgh flat has left almost 1.3m in his will. Roger Gray was found dead in the hallway of his home in the leafy Morningside area of the city in March. And a 20-year-old was later charged in [...]
In the first hour of its opening, almost two visitors per second passed through the museum’s new entrance By Lauren Gelling THE recently refurbished National Museum of Scotland has revealed that a record-breaking 100, 000 visitors passed through its doors in less than a week of its re-opening. In just six days, entry figures for [...]
Cross collie Rosie handed herself into Bathgate police station By Lauren Gelling ARUNAWAY dog handed herself into a police station after escaping from her home. Collie cross Rosie ran away from owner Karen Brown’s garden on Mid Street, Bathgate, last Thursday evening. After realising Rosie was missing, Karen frantically searched for the 11-year-old pooch before [...]
Pic Katielee Arrowsmith/Deadline News Egyptian Vultures wing their way to Edinburgh Zoo. They may not be cute and cuddly, there is no denying that vultures are pretty fascinating birds. Edinburgh Zoo has tow new resident feathered friends, a male and female Egyptian Vultures who have come from Sofia in Bulgaria.
By Kirsty Topping The five stolen puppies were returned 14 hours after they were taken A BAFFLED dog owner has told how his puppies were stolen – only to be mysteriously returned to him 14 hours later. Colin Blacklabel, 24, says he was devastated when the seven week old animals were taken on Monday [...]
By Kirsty Topping Karteek’s route A SCOTSMAN has become the first person to swim across the widest part of the Forth. Karteek Clarke, 44, from Edinburgh completed the nine and a half mile journey from North Berwick to Earlsferry in Fife in just under five and a half hours. Wearing nothing but trunks, goggles [...]
A Bin Laden mask similar to the one worn by Diamond A PRANKSTER terrorised shop staff by donning an Osama Bin Laden mask and waving a cardboard gun – on the same day it emerged the Al Queda leader had been gunned down by Navy Seals. But Stefan Diamond’s idea of a joke backfired spectacularly [...]
A WIDOW has lost her legal battle over where to bury the body of her soldier husband. Stacy Connolly went to court after learning her husband’s body would be released to his mother for burial. Mark Connolly, 24, who survived a deadly blast in Afghanistan, died after a bar brawl with Black Watch comrades in [...]
Edinburgh Redford Barracks are transformed as the cast of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo perform their first complete working rehearsal of this years show. Performers from Brazil, The Netherlands, Germany, Oman, Australia and the UK come together at the barracks for this the 61st Tattoo.
By Kevin Duguid The helicopter had a laser light shone into the cockpit CREW on board a Royal Navy helicopter were dazzled by a laser beam deliberately shone into their cockpit during a rescue operation. The aircraft was involved in the rescue of a woman from the water at the coastal Ayrshire holiday village of [...]
By Kevin Duguid James Williams held up the shop with a sgian dubh A ROBBER held a gift shop worker up at knife point using a sgian dubh. James Williams used the blade to steal almost 450 after asking the female employee if he could see the traditional knife. The weapon was stored in [...]
By Kirsty Topping Robert Sherman wrote for the revival of the Dr Who series THE MAN who brought Daleks back to life on the small screen has predicted that Dr Who’s arch enemies will follow him to the grave. Robert Shearman has just accepted the post of writer-in-residence at Edinburgh’s Napier University and will [...]
Health professionals are concerned by the number of boozy shows HEALTH professionals have blasted the number of alcohol-related shows at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Shows including 7 Day Drunk, Whisky Fir Dummies, Thirsty and The Thinking Drinker’s Guide to Alcohol are all on the bill. Many even offer the audience a free tipple with [...]
The ParentPlanner app will help parents organise their childrens’ school lives HELP is finally at hand for parents fed up with signing endless permission forms for school trips and digging out loose change to pay for them. A new app is being launched that will allow parents to approve a school outing and pay with [...]
By Kevin Duguid Max Evans will have his trial postponed so he can train for the World Cup SCOTTISH rugby star Max Evans has had his nightclub assault trial delayed so he can prepare for the world cup. The 27-year-old was due to go on trial on August 15 to face allegations he hit a [...]
A TAXI driver was punched in the face after refusing to take a man home. The 49-year-old was sitting in his black cab outside the Radisson on Edinburgh’s High Street on Saturday morning. Between 4am and 4.45am a man began arguing with drivers at the rank. He then approached the taxi driver to take him [...]
A SCOTS dancer is trading life on the small stage for the bright lights of Bollywood as she lands a movie contract in India. Lisa Aytoun, 22, is taking a break from her job at Musselburgh Sports Centre in East Lothian to work with some of India’s biggest names. The Port Seaton girl earned her [...]
TOURISTS looking out over Edinburgh from the castle are set to have an amazing view – of two giant Primark signs. The retail giant has applied to put up three large raised signs outside the store on Princes Street and one more at the back entrance on Rose Street. And council officials are set to [...]