A miserable accountant, who was bullied by workmates for being geeky, ripped off £170,000 from his bosses and splurged it all in just one weekend - on cocaine and prostitutes.
The mother of an autistic five-year-old who was forced to leave a screening of Dumbo after being told he should be âkept at homeâ has vowed to boycott the cinema.
A young scientist with inoperable cancer is asking for help to prolong his life and fight back against the disease - which has already taken his whole arm.
George Bernard Shaw once described patriotism as âfundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in itâ â not so much love of oneâs country, more an extreme form of self-love.
Iâve worked on the frontline of Edinburghâs food banks for more than three years and what I have seen, particularly in the past few months, is really worrying. The food banks have become much, much busier â the fight just to survive is becoming visibly harder for people.
Italia 1990. Stadio delle Alpi, Turin. Scotland vs Brazil. The weather was hot with showers; the ground a fiesta of flags. Outside, the Tartan Army danced in the rain to samba music blaring from a bus. Inside, fans covered their eyes, hardly daring to hope as the game minutes ticked by without a goal. Then, with less than 10 minutes to go, Luis Muller struck, goalkeeper Jim Leighton fumbled and it was (more or less) over. 1-0 to Brazil. Scotland were going home.
The road to Hampden has become a familiar one for most Aberdeen players in recent years but itâs been a tortuous path to the national stadium for their current leading goalscorer, Sam Cosgrove.
In what Hearts manager Craig Levein has described as a rollercoaster season, there is still scope for the Gorgie manager to turn recent criticism on its head as his team gear up for an exciting finish to the campaign.
AN AUTHOR who pledged to give away her £2.5 million Scottish castle in a raffle has been rapped by advertising watchdogs after the competition was scrapped.
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