Hearts US bid: Club ‘will have to quit Tynecastle’
A RETIRED businessman leading the charge to buy Hearts said it was “almost inevitable” the club would have to quit Tynecastle.Bob Jamieson has joined forces with an unnamed Edinburgh businessman and...
View ArticleMan sets up charity after losing wife and child
A MAN who lost his Edinburgh GP wife and unborn child to sepsis has set up a charity to raise awareness of the illness which claims about 37,000 lives in the UK every year. Fiona Agnew was 35 weeks...
View ArticleFuneral called off amid fears over cause of death
MOURNERS have been turned away from a woman’s funeral after relatives won a last-minute bid to postpone the ceremony amid concerns about the cause of death.Elizabeth McLean, 85, died from a lung...
View ArticlePupil turned away from school with empty desks
THE law on class sizes has been branded “not fit for purpose” after a mother’s five-year-old child was refused entry to a popular Edinburgh primary school – even though places were available.The...
View ArticleCorstorphine Hill body: Victim had left husband
AN Irish woman whose dismembered body was found on Corstorphine Hill had left her husband in the months before visiting her tram worker son in Edinburgh.Phyllis Dunleavy, 66, travelled to the Capital...
View ArticleSearch engine AltaVista closed down by Yahoo
IT was once the darling of online search in the early days of the internet thanks to its pioneering approach but AltaVista has now returned its last results page.AltaVista.com was taken offline on...
View ArticleGlasgow Airport reveals new logo
A new logo for Glasgow Airport has been revealed as part of a multimillion-pound investment.The re-branding has a distinctive Scottish influence with the use of Saltire colours and features a thistle...
View ArticleJuror too drunk for duty let off court charge
A JUROR who was too drunk to do her duty at the High Court trial of a teenage sex offender has escaped being found in contempt of court.Nicola Glen, 35, stunned staff at Scotland’s supreme court when...
View ArticleOAP plagued by mice in sheltered accommodation
A MOUSE infestation in sheltered accommodation has left a pensioner “too terrified to sleep” after she woke up with a dead rodent in her bed.Margaret Hughes, 82, has battled the vermin problem for a...
View ArticleArctic vet to be awarded Star medal 71 years on
THE stink of petrol on board the ticking time bomb is a smell Tom Davidson will never forget.It was 1942 and he was just 20. The young man from Wallyford had started as a flight controller on board...
View ArticleSusan Boyle brother’s Odeon revamp launch delayed
A WRANGLE over the lease agreement for a mothballed cinema has forced the building’s grand relaunch as an entertainment complex to be postponed.Entrepreneur Gerry Boyle – brother of singing sensation...
View ArticleLegionnaires’ outbreak: Family’s grief one year on
THE grief-stricken family of the first person to die as a result of last year’s legionella crisis have revealed that they are still struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.Bert Air passed away in...
View ArticleLiam Rudden: Lion King is pride of the jungle
I NEVER knew that you tuned a bongo drum by whacking it with a mallet. At least, I’m assuming that’s what the percussionist perched high above the stalls was doing ahead of Disney’s Lion King press...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: Nobby will tell all in the book
Any day now. Nobby Clark, vocalist and founder member of the Bay City Rollers, tells me he expects to hear from his legal advisors in New York the bottom line on the never-ending wrangle on royalties...
View ArticleLeader: ‘The rules need to be clear and be enforced’
TAKING your first steps into primary school is a stressful time for both parents and children. But in Edinburgh the process can be even more complicated.The pressure on P1 places at many Edinburgh...
View ArticleJohann Lamont unveils new frontbench MSPs
SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont has unveiled the latest changes to her frontbench team with four backbench MSPs promoted to shadow minister posts.Ms Lamont named Mark Griffin as shadow minister...
View ArticleDrew Smith: Play cards right to have opt-out donor system
THE Welsh Assembly recently voted by an overwhelming majority to approve Welsh Labour’s Human Transplantation Bill, which will move organ donation in Wales to an opt-out system. This pioneering move is...
View ArticleJim Sillars: Hypocrisy reeks in Egypt’s crisis
Great human events have their roots in history. So it is with Egypt and other Arab lands. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 saw Britain and France become the dominant forces – Britain in the...
View ArticleTalk of the Town: Iain won’t butcher any songs at Jazz Festival
HE’S the butcher aiming to prove he’s all that jazz – and if early indications are anything to go by, his upcoming show is going to steak fans’ breath away.Iain Hunter from Pathhead, has been dubbed...
View ArticleCairngorms National Park hires out electric bikes
ELECTRIC bikes are being offered for hire in the Cairngorms National Park – allowing visitors to explore the area in an environmentally-friendly way.A network of free charge points has been put in...
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