5 hours ago by oliverfarrimond

By Rory Reynolds THE boss of the world’s first space travel firm has revealed how a film producer attempted to hire the world’s most advanced space craft – to make a porn movie. Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn has said he was baffled when he was approached by someone interested in hiring th ...

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6 hours ago by oliverfarrimond

By Rory Reynolds HEADTEACHERS are having to pick up dirty needles and condoms from school grounds because health and safety prevents cleaners from removing them, according to a new government report. A poll of 1,137 school rectors across Scotland has revealed that there is increasing concern that th ...

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6 hours ago by michaelmacleod1

By Michael MacLeod EDINBURGH’S tram scheme boss believes going £33million over budget would be “a great success.” Richard Jeffrey says the massive project is likely to cost £545million instead of the original £512million budget. But rather than going off the rails, he says he would be “pleased” if h ...

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6 hours ago by oliverfarrimond

By Rory Reynolds A SCOTS girl who became the target of a hate campaign because she rolled her eyes at Susan Boyle’s famous first performance has hit out at Britain’s Got Talent bosses for making her a hate figure. Jennifer Byrne has received threats and abusive messages after a camera picked up on h ...

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6 hours ago by oliverfarrimond

By Rory Reynolds POLISH immigrants are thought to have introduced a huge tree-killing moth to Scotland – that has already laid waste to vast swathes of forest in eastern Europe. Scientists from the Forestry Commission Scotland have said that the pine-tree lappet moth may have latched onto the luggag ...

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6 hours ago by Molly

Folklorist Margaret Bennett tells the rather creepy story of the "The Cave of Gold," (Uamh an Oir) and sings the song in the video below. If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, you can skip ahead to 6:57 where the song starts. The story is, in short, about a piper who decided to explore a ...

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1 day ago by Rusty

A tartan-clad football hooligan is due to appear in court today to face charges concerning an incident in which an Aberdeen Woolybacks team soccer fan wearing a ‘black sheep’ Halloween fancy dress costume suffered second degree burns after being set on fire. The 94-year-old Aberdeen side supporter, ...

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2 days ago by Grant Barrett

Today’s word of the day is harl, which generally means to drag something along the ground, but it can also mean to troll for fish, a rough mixture of lime and gravel (used on walls of houses, for example), and a type of fiber made of flax and hemp. Most uses of the word are most common in Scots Engl ...

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3 days ago by bookmoochjournals

A journal for Anything and Everything Scots. Feel free to include anything the title inspires you to, whether it be art, pictures, writing, poetry etc. Take a few pages if you need to but within reason. Please mooch and then relist within 2 weeks. Please don’t alter any other moocher’s work. When fu ...

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3 days ago by oliverfarrimond

By Oliver Farrimond MOTOR racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart offered hope to Scottish prisoners yesterday after visiting Saughton Prison in Edinburgh with Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Accompanied by son Paul, Sir Jackie was promoting dyslexia courses for prisoners, which he says will put them in ...

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