Tag: rescue

Dazed driver survives near-death plunge

Deadline News Journalist - August 13, 2009

By Michael MacLeod A DRIVER sparked a dramatic rescue after first crashing his car into a truck before wandering dazed on foot across a...

Tragic schoolboy drowns while swimming in disused quarry

Deadline News Journalist - July 31, 2009

By OLIVER FARRIMOND, ALEXANDER LAWRIE, PAUL THORNTON & SHAUN MILNE THE GRIEF-STRICKEN family of a schoolboy who drowned while swimming in a disused quarry had...

Bins too tempting for arsonists

Deadline News Journalist - July 30, 2009

By Cara Sulieman FIRE CHIEFS in Edinburgh fear the city’s bin strike could be putting lives at risk. Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service reports...

Edinburgh Airport emergency services scrambled

Deadline News Journalist - July 29, 2009

By Oliver Farrimond A FULL-SCALE emergency was declared at Edinburgh Airport last night as an inbound Flybe flight reported problems with its hydraulic system. Emergency services...