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 [...]
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 [...]
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”. [...]