QUENTIN Tarantino’s favourite cinema has been banned from Scotland’s biggest movie festival because its 3D screen isn’t up to scratch. The Cameo in Edinburgh – Scotland’s oldest cinema – has a screen specially designed for showing 3D movies in its main auditorium. But the organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) claim the screen [...]
SINGING star Susan Boyle has visited a Scots zoo devastated by fire last month and vowed to back the campaign to rebuild it. The Britain’s Got Talent star visited Five Sisters Zoo in Polbeth, West Lothian, near her Blackburn home, on Friday and left a generous donation. SuBo also looked in on some of the [...]
A SCOTTISH hospital had to send an injured youngster to another medical unit because they lacked staff and equipment to stitch a cut. A boy with a cut leg was taken to the minor injuries unit at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline but no-one could be found to put in stitches. So the youngster had [...]
A GERMAN tour operator has accused a Scots ferry operator of adopting a ‘Nazi symbol’ as its new logo. Serco NorthLink launched a marketing campaign in February – centred on fictional character Magnus the Viking who they say symbolises “dynamism, power and pride”. But Hamburg-based Britain Travel have urged the ferry company to re-think its [...]
THE heartbroken mother of a soldier who was found dead in a river 10 years ago says she still wants answers to how he died. The body of Black Watch private and Iraq veteran Gary Kinnear was recovered from the River Tay in his home city of Dundee in December 2003. Gary, 31, had been [...]
MORE THAN 650 people have signed a petition calling for a hairdressing salon to have its NHS wig-fitting contract restored. Labour MSP Helen Eadie has also joined calls for NHS Fife to overturn its cancellation of Sheds Hairdressing in Dunfermline’s contract. The salon trimmed and fitted wigs for patients who had lost their hair through [...]
AN investigation has been demanded into claims hospital chiefs tried to trick government inspectors by moving staff to frontline nursing roles. Midwives, operating theatre staff and elderly carers were redeployed to an overstretched admissions ward at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife, the same day as the inspection, according to whistleblowers. It is claimed the redeployment created [...]
FORMER Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell was left red-faced after accidentally tweeting a picture of himself wearing posh hunting clothes. Campbell – who helped Tony Blair’s Government push through a ban on fox hunting – claimed the snap of his wearing upper-class get-up was meant as a private joke for his wife and daughter. But [...]
SCOTS bra queen Michelle Mone has admitted accosting women in the street and forcing them to try on her bras. The multi-millionairess, from Glasgow, confessed to her unusual habit on Twitter today, prompting one of her friends to joke that she was a “sex pest”. The 40-year-old, who has an OBE and has made £39m [...]
TOP Scottish actor Robert Carlyle has turned on his own publicity machine – suggesting sections of an interview with him were made up. The 51-year-old actor said the attempt by American broadcasters to drum up publicity for his latest US TV series, based on the Rumplestiltskin story, was “awful”. Carlyle is currently starring in hit [...]
BUILDINGS in Edinburgh are so unsafe people should walk in the middle of the road to avoid being hit by falling masonry, the former senior council official has said. Brian Sibbald, former head of Edinburgh’s scandal-hit property conservation department, says staff couldn’t cope with the amount of work they were given and “lost the plot”. [...]
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By Claire McKim HE may be one of Hollywood’s most respected male stars but Brad Pitt has delivered a damning verdict on some of his most famous film roles. Pitt, who was in Glasgow last summer filming Zombie flick World War Z, has laid into some of his much loved performances, saying he “flatlined” [...]
By Brooke Stafford IT IS no secret that there is a shortage of qualified medical personnel, and nurses are no exception. One segment of the population that is hardest hit by the shortage is the aging and elderly population. Below, are just five ways the nursing shortage is affecting the care of our parents and [...]
By Cally Day, Save RAF Lossiemouth Campaigner I will try to keep this brief, although the subject has been a long drawn out process and is still ongoing. I am a housewife, mother, and now, an accidental campaigner. On the 19th October 2010 our Prime Minister made a statement in the House of Commons stating [...]
Before I started with Deadline I had never tweeted a single character and it took a lot of pushing before I did. Now I tweet everyday and check Twitter at least every hour. It’s scary how adictive it can be and how we now go to the social networking site to get up to the [...]
“Soulfillapopkilla is a re-release of my first record. I wrote most of the songs and co-produced it with Madonna/Seal maestro Marcus Brown. “We met during a songwriting session in Los Angeles while he was working on her ‘Drowned’ world tour and we clicked. “We got to writing and sketching out tracks and ideas and before [...]
AS JUSTICE MINISTER KENNY MacASKILL STATES THAT THERE IS A “COMPELLING ARGUMENT” FOR A SINGLE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE IN SCOTLAND, LOTHIAN & BORDERS FIRE CHIEF JIMMY CAMPBELL TELLS DEADLINE NEWS WHY HE TOO SUPPORTS THE IDEA “For those working in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Services and providing a vital emergency response and community [...]
It was far too early in the morning to be doing radio interviews, but the team seem to have been chatting live on air on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Bristol and surreally Melbourne Talk Radio – all before my first cup of coffee! The 31st was always [...]
In the latest of our Guest Blog series, Martin Keane from OneKind tells about a year of change for the Edinburgh based charity. 2010 has represented a year of monumental change for OneKind. The organisation began this year as Advocates for Animals, but it was clear that something unique was being born. The charity was [...]