A GERMAN U-boat which was scuttled after a toilet malfunction has been found off the coast of Scotland after 70 years. U-1206 had to surface in the North Sea after a faulty “WC” filled the boat with chlorine gas. This led to it being spotted by Allied planes, forcing Captain Karl Schlitt to order his [...]
A DOCTOR has been found guilty of leering at a picture of a patient’s breasts when he was supposed to be examining her feet. Dr Balamurali Krishnan Loganathan (corr) carried out a “sexually motivated” examination of a woman in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee in August 2010. The orthopaedic doctor also placed her feet against his [...]
THE Scottish SPCA is seeking the owners of five different pet birds that are all believed to have escaped from their Aberdeenshire homes over the warm weekend. Scotland’s animal welfare charity has rescued two budgies, a canary, a parakeet and an exotic sun conure from various locations across the region and they are all now [...]
A BABY who was born weighing the same as a bag of sugar has grown into a strapping toddler – thanks to the generosity of blood donors. Alfie Hook was born 14 weeks premature in the summer of 2010 but his life was saved thanks to a series of blood transfusions. Now he is a [...]
DEEP Sea World, Scotland’s national aquarium, is inviting younger visitors to become royalty for the day as part of their Kings and Queens event which takes place from June 2-5. Any child who arrives at the aquarium in a home-made crown or tiara will receive £2 off the normal child admission price. The youngsters will [...]
SCOTTISH rugby’s most-capped player, Chris Paterson, is being recognised by the University of Edinburgh, where he spent three years studying to become a teacher. Paterson, who won 109 international caps and scored a record 809 points for Scotland in an illustrious career will tomorrow (30 May) be inducted into the University’s Sports Hall of Fame. [...]
A PUPPY with two broken legs has been cruelly dumped in a park in Fife. The five month old collie-cross was reportedly found abandoned in a box on parkland in Methil. The Scottish SPCA were called in after local residents sheltered the animal at their nearby home. Cody was unable to walk due to his [...]
A FORMER headteacher who snapped and attacked a couple in the street following claims about a gay relationship has escaped being struck off. Stuart Seivwright punched a man who repeatedly claimed to have been in a homosexual relationship with him and broke the wrist of a woman who was accompanying him. The 37-year-old, who was [...]
A SCOTS council has been forced to shell out more than £23m in equal pay claims to female workers, it emerged today. More than 4,500 women working for Fife Council have been paid compensation for getting lower salaries than men despite doing the same job. Fife handed over £20.3m to underpaid women in one financial year [...]
THE Forth Bridge will be nominated for a World Heritage award. The nomination will be submitted to the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for a decision at the 2015 meeting. Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop said: “The Forth Bridge is a Scottish icon [...]
Four inspiring sisters who have all beaten breast cancer are calling on women to sign up to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. Having supported each other through breast cancer and losing their mum to the disease, the sisters are now joining forces to encourage as many women as possible to sign up to the [...]
HIBS star Gary O’Connor gave a false name to police who questioned him over drugs but misspelled it and then ran away, a court heard today. An officer told Edinburgh Sheriff Court he saw O’Connor holding a piece of paper to his nose in the back of a white Land Rover in Edinburgh city centre [...]
MICHELLE Mone has hit out at an “idiot” Twitter user who accused her of timing a cancer scare story to publicise a product launch. The bra tycoon launched her self-tan range in Glasgow last Tuesday, the same day news of her surgery to remove a mole on her shoulder hit the press. A relieved Mone [...]
HUNDREDS of visitors to Edinburgh Zoo had to seek shelter today after a family of hogs escaped from keepers and ran amok. Guests who took refuge in the monkey house described amazing scenes as zoo staff armed with sweeping brushes and dart guns pursued the Red River Hogs. One of the fleeing hogs – from [...]
THE city centre basement where David Gilroy is believed to have murdered ex-lover Suzanne Pilley has been put up for rent. Property agents are looking to lease the basement where the 38-year-old bookkeeper was last seen in 2010. The ground and basement floors of the city centre building in Edinburgh are being rented out for around £107,000 [...]
The University of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station has captured a striking image showing the entire country almost completely cloud-free. With the exception of white cloud over the Grampian mountains and far north-west, the country basked in blazing sunshine that sent temperatures in the Highlands above 29 degrees C for the first time ever in May. [...]
A DOG has been killed in a hit-and-run incident in Angus. The animal was struck on the A926 Kirriemuir to Alyth Road, near Reedie Farm Cottages on Sunday afternoon. The driver of the offending vehicle then drove off but police say they would have been aware of the collision. Tayside police is now looking to [...]
A DEVELOPMENT which includes Edinburgh’s first new Council homes for a generation has won a prestigious national housing award. The Gracemount site was given the accolade in the ‘Best Partnership in Affordable Housing Delivery’ category of this year’s Homes for Scotland Awards. The development, a partnership between the City of Edinburgh Council and The Cruden [...]
DRUGS with a street value of £600,000 have been recovered in Fife. Police recovered cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis resin following operation in the Dunfermline area. A women and two men from west Fife and two women from the Preston area are due to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court tomorrow in relation to the seizure. Detective [...]
MEERKATS do not live a seemples life, a study suggests – many of the furry desert animals are inbred, which impacts on their chances of survival. Scientists studying a population of the animals in the wild – which live in groups of up to 50 individuals, where subordinate adults help parents care for their offspring [...]