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A TEENAGER yesterday showed off his amazing new £30,000 bionic arm. Delighted Patrick Kane can instruct the “i-Limb” to carry out a vast range of tasks via his mobile phone. The artificial arm gives the 16-year-old — who lost his left arm to meningitis as a baby — 24 movements including a handshake, pinching and [...]
The Three Sisters in the Cowgate is planning to celebrate March 17 with an Irish drinking extravaganza with pints filled with Guinness and Magners. More than 150 kegs of Guinness and 75 kegs of Magners have been delivered to the pub to help it break two two world pint-pulling records.
Horse meat is proving so popular that a Scottish chef has now doubled his weekly order. The Mongolian-style restaurant, Khublai Khans, in Edinburgh put horse meat on the menu a few weeks before the horse meat scandal broke out, and diners are going mad for the new delicacy.
Edinburgh Zoo’s very own ‘king of the beasts’ – as lions are sometimes known – celebrated his 2nd birthday in style. Asiatic lion juvenile Jayendra, known as Jay to his keepers at the Zoo, celebrated his birthday in style with some special birthday themed enrichment. Unfortunately for Jay, Kamlesh, the lioness who he is hoped [...]
No.1 chart sensation Labrinth swept into Scotland’s capital city today and declared he wants to be king of Edinburgh Castle. The urban music star was in Scotland to attend a glitzy jewellery store opening on Edinburgh’s prestigious George Street. The 23-year-old, who is currently no.1 in the charts with his new track Beneath Your Beautiful [...]
CHEFS have married Scotland’s other national drink with curry to create the Iron Bruna. Brothers Abdul and Akbar Ali have blended the famed orange fizzy drink with bhuna sauce. The result, they claim, is a mild curry with a distinctive after-taste of Irn Bru. The Iron Bruna was created at their Kismot restaurant in Edinburgh [...]
GARRY Haldane has emerged as Scotland’s most bitten postie after suffering 15 pet attacks in the past 12 years. The 51-year-old has been chewed, scratched and chased so many times he is spearheading a campaign called Posties Bite Back.
Hip hip hooray! A very big happy birthday is in order as Yang Guang celebrates his ninth birthday on 14th August, which is made doubly special as it is also his very first birthday on Scottish soil. This boisterous boy is the first half of the UK’s only panda pair to turn nine, and will [...]
The Ladyboys of Bangkok are back for their 15th year in Edinburgh and to help celebrate it, the ladyboys, with the help of a zumba instructor, had a zumba session in the middle of the meadows. Full story here.
SWEET-toothed Scots are being offered the ultimate ice cream challenge – eating a 3,000-calorie sundae in less than 15 minutes. Tahar Javaid – inspired by US TV show Man V Food – puts 20 scoops of ice cream, whipped cream, smarties, skittles and sauces in to the monster dessert. And to keep health campaigners happy, [...]
The U.S. Kids Golf European Championship has returned to East Lothian for the fifth year. With 550+ kids from more than 50 countries, the 2012 event is the biggest to date. The huge number of players and families flocking to the five East Lothian courses is also predicted to bring an estimated £1.3million boost to [...]
THE FUTURE stars of Italian football put their skills to the test when they visited Holy Rood High School. Ten members of the under-21 Italian team will took centre stage to answer questions about their life on and off the pitch by members of the school football team and Italian language pupils. The squad [...]
BACK from the dead grandmother Lorna Baillie has spoken her first words since suffering a massive heart attack. The 49-year-old astonished her family and doctors by coming back to life 45 minutes after medics declared her “technically dead” and withdrew treatment. Mrs Baillie, who is making a remarkable recovery, told her family as they left [...]
A WOMAN who was left for dead by medics following a massive heart attack astonished her family and doctors when she came back to life 45 minutes later. Relatives of Lorna Baillie were told there was no hope of reviving her and gathered round to say goodbye as doctors removed all life support. The grieving [...]
A SCOTS inventor has developed a new labeling system which shows when food is unsafe to eat. It’s hoped that the new technology, dubbed the UWI label, could help reduce the amount of wasted food, as well as help consumers save money and preventing them falling ill. Pete Higgins came up with the idea after [...]
BRITAIN’S Got Talent held their auditions in Scotland’s capital today. Hosted at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, thousands cued outside before being allowed in to watch this year’s auditions. The shows hosts, Ant and Dec, were cheered on as they introduced the show to the cameras. The cheers got louder as the judges appeared from their cars. [...]
AN ICE cream shop offering unique custom made ice cream has recently opened in the capital. The ice cream parlour, named Afterz, is the only parlour in Scotland to use a cold stone to create personalised ice cream. Afterz offers customers 24 unique ice cream flavours, including irn bru and bubblegum, made using award-winning Hamilton [...]
A SCOTS curry house has promised next Wednesday will be a third degree Burns night – after creating the world’s hottest haggis. Kismot in Edinburgh, whose ‘killer’ curry put two over-ambitious eaters in hospital last year, has created the unique blend of curry and haggis for the Bard’s birthday. On Burns Night next week, diners [...]
The National Galleries of Scotland is delighted to annouce a major new acquistion, Rome from Monte Mario by J.M.W.
Scotland may already be notorious for “unhealthy” food options (I refer of course, to the infamous Deep Fried Mar Bar) but one Edinburgh chef has taken Scottish dessert to a whole new level. Simon Robertson – head chef at Edinburgh hotel and pub The Fiddler’s Elbow – has created “Braveheart Butter Balls” – frozen balls [...]