Police say take car keys to bed after spate of break-ins
POLICE have advised people to take their car keys “up to bed at night” after a spate of robberies in an affluent city suburb.Members of the Grange and Prestonfield community council were told by their...
View ArticleJoke of the Week
At the Olympics, a woman meets a man carrying an eight-foot-long metal stick. “Are you a pole vaulter?” she asks. “No,” he says, ‘I’m German, but how did you know my name is Walter?”Basketball...
View ArticleKiller faces assessment to decide length of jail term
A MALE prostitute who killed a university lecturer in a frenzied knife attack is to be assessed to find out if he should be detained indefinitely.Pawel Rodak, 20, was convicted of a lesser charge of...
View ArticleDisruption continues as city heads for wettest June ever
EDINBURGH looks set to suffer the wettest June since records began.With just today to go, the Capital has had more than 250 per cent of the monthly average rainfall for June, and forecasters have...
View ArticleBwani Junction first band to play Forth Bridge
THERE can be few stages more awe-inspiring and iconic – or dangerous.The Forth Bridge rises a dizzying 350 feet above sea level, often beset by fearsome winds, and has proven a deadly place to work...
View ArticleHistory of circus dynasties is as exhilarating as their death-defying stunts
BACKSTAGE at Zippo’s, 76-year-old Norman Barrett, unblushingly billed as “the world’s greatest ringmaster”, is waiting to make his entrance.He stands, head bowed, behind red velvet, the spotlight...
View ArticleFordyce Maxwell: Regardless of our personal view on global warming, a wet...
I CAN’T believe it either – today is the first of July and the number of decent days during April, May and June were as rare as supportive votes for Rangers.In the great scheme of things it should not...
View ArticleTV review: Veep, Line Of Duty, Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places Of My Life
VeepSky Atlantic, Monday, 10pmLine Of Duty BBC2, Tuesday, 9pmAlan Partridge: Welcome To The Places Of My Life Sky Atlantic, Monday, 9pm A GOOD test of good comedy is how often you have to replay it to...
View ArticleBook review: Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell
Random House, £12.99THIS is a one of the best concepts for a non-fiction book I’ve come across in some time. While living in India, Andrew Blackwell visited Kanpur, a city with a population of about...
View ArticleLeader: Back to basics for banks
TROUBLES at Barclays have dominated headlines over the past week but everyone concerned in this saga has been well aware this is not the only British bank to have stepped over the line – morally and...
View ArticleDrumlanrig: SpAds down tools for Pringle’s big day
CONGRATULATIONS to Alex Salmond’s chief spin doctor Kevin Pringle (below) who got hitched in Glasgow yesterday.The big day for the man known as the second most powerful in the Scottish Government was...
View ArticleTV Picks of the Week: Blackout, Episodes, T in the Park
BlackoutBBC1, Monday, 9pmWife to husband: “There are times when you’ve had a drink that you’ve got such a look – it’s like you’re not even there.” Him: “It’s called having fun. You used to join in.”...
View ArticlePop goes feminism as Spice Girls reform
THERE’S a whiff of old Spice in the air. Last Tuesday, on a heavily carpeted staircase at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, five preened, powdered and ever-so-slightly ageing faces came...
View ArticleComment: Why QE3 could be last chance for the Chancellor
FOR Chancellor George Osborne the past week has seen a serious unravelling. Fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics show the economy is in a deeper recession than previously thought....
View ArticleBook review: The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn
Faber and Faber, £20IN HER foreword to The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn whets readers’ appetites with a reference to modernism in literature, “and to its glorious implications upon the construction of...
View ArticleCashmaster International creating jobs on back of $2.7m US order
A FIFE company that specialises in cash counting machines is looking to expand its workforce after winning the largest order in its 35-year history.Cashmaster International secured the $2.75 million...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (12A)
Director: Marc WebbRunning time: 136 minutes***I’VE only met one person who doesn’t know the story of Spider-Man – after all, the last outing was only six years ago – and presumably Martin Sheen is...
View ArticleBlackRock in biggest office deal in decade
GLOBAL investment manager BlackRock is taking space in one of Edinburgh’s newest office blocks in what is the biggest city-centre letting of a speculative development for almost a decade.The US firm...
View ArticleDirector dealings: Bosses up their stakes in ID firm
GB GROUP, which specialises in software used to verify the identity of customers, recently delivered full-year results ahead of expectations.The company said it was seeing the benefit of a number of...
View ArticleRBS is next bank facing fines over scam
BANKERS who manipulate interest rates to boost their profit margins will face criminal investigation under new laws to be proposed by Ministers this week amid growing demands for a full inquiry into...
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