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Sir Jimmy’s jaunty tunes “better than Rolling Stones”

By Michael MacLeod SCOTS trad music legend Sir Jimmy Shand was better than the Rolling Stones, according to the Beatles’ official biographer. The Fab Four’s best-known...

Panic as jet fire grounds Edinburgh flight

By Michael MacLeod PASSENGERS had to flee across a runway after a plane engine caught fire just moments before take off. Fire crews surrounded a Flybe...

Kilt copyright could save tourists from tartan tat

By Michael MacLeod A CLAN chief is calling for a “tartan trademark” to stop cut price cloth being fobbed off as authentically Scottish. Lord Jamie Sempill,...

Missing pensioner’s anguished family fear the worst

By Michael MacLeod HEARTBROKEN relatives of a Scots pensioner who has been missing for a year admit they now fear she is dead. Frail 89-year-old Mary...

Fears for missing angler after body found on beach

By Michael MacLeod A BODY washed up on a Scots beach is feared to be that of a 60-year-old angler who went missing six weeks...

Rankin’s new book goes under the hammer

By Michael MacLeod IAN Rankin is auctioning off the first four pages of his new book – three months before it hits the shelves. The crime...

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