Tag: bookies

Bookies cut odds on record temps: Sizzling Scotland just 6/1 to break previous high

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - March 26, 2012

BOOKIES have slashed the odds on the record temperature in Scotland being broken this summer as the nation basks in an unseasonal spring heatwave. On...

Axe wielding man made away with three-figure sum from Livingston bookies

Court & Crime

Deadline News Journalist - November 22, 2010

A MAN brandished an axe at two employees in a bookmakers in Livingston before making off with a three-figure sum of cash. The man, described...

Gamu given good odds for Christmas number one

Christine Lavelle - October 24, 2010

By Christine Lavelle X FACTOR star Gamu Nhengu has been tipped to take this year’s Christmas number one slot. Bookies have been forced dropped the 18-year-old’s...

Bookies take bets on Edinburgh tram project taking 16 years

Deadline News Journalist - March 22, 2010

By Rory Reynolds CHEEKY bookies are offering odds on whether or not the Edinburgh trams project will be finished before building work on an infamous...

100th birthday honoured by man’s local bookies

Deadline News Journalist - February 18, 2010

By Andrea McCallum SCOTLAND’S oldest known punter celebrated his 100th birthday in style yesterday– in his local bookies. Sam Martinez was presented with a cake as...