Daily Archives: May 5, 2010

Former SIC chief executive David Clark, ousted with a £250,000 tax-free payoff two months ago, has hit out at Scotland’s financial watchdog’s report into the circumstances surrounding his departure, describing it as “inaccurate, misleading and amateur”.In a statement issued to media acr... Read more...

A heroin addict who hatched a plan to get back into prison after being released early from custody was sentenced to 267 days in jail.Aberdeen prisoner John Gibson, 33, struggled to cope when he was released from Craiginches prison in Aberdeen on 31st December.(more…) Read more...

All Freeview viewers in Shetland will need to retune their TVs and boxes today as the first digital switchover in the north of Scotland gets underway.Shortly after midnight, analogue BBC Two was turned off permanently at the Bressay transmitter and engineers started switching on digital signals ... Read more...

When council tenant Alexander Turner broke into his own flat after losing his keys he called 999 and told police who attended there had been a break-in to avoid having to pay for the damage.But officers soon saw through his "cock-and-bull story" and arrested him for breaking the window. The exer... Read more...

The parents of a Lerwick man charged in the United States with electronic solicitation of a child – after a teenage girl complained that the internet affair they were having had become a "master/slave relationship" – have hit back at the allegations, protesting that he is an innocent victim of m... Read more...