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It's not a sport you'd expect to find in areas such as Pilton, Granton, Niddrie and Muirhouse.

GERMANS want to eat him, Spaniards want to beatify him, bookmakers want to hire him.

THE fraudster who tried to sell the Ritz for £250 million in a "outrageous and elaborate scam" despite the fact that he never owned it was jailed for five years.

GERMANS want to eat him, Spaniards want to beatify him, bookmakers want to hire him.

EVEN in Stone Age times it seems people were keen on a bit of DIY, with prehistoric hunters in Scotland the first to go in for painting and decorating.

A TIGER escaped from the back of a truck in South Africa yesterday and remained on the run as police used helicopters to hunt it down.

FOR almost 40 years its bizarre fusion of fishing and tap-dancing has reeled in competitors and camera crews from across the globe.

POLICE and environmental officers had to take "extreme action" to remove two tonnes of rubbish and filthy belongings from an Edinburgh flat in what council bosses have

THEY have already triggered 999 calls from worried passers-by and been spotted dressed up in everything from a bikini to Y-fronts and a woolly hat.

TIMES must be tough back at the Empire.

A MARRIED father with a lifelong interest in taxidermy pleaded guilty yesterday to a string of criminal charges relating to a dead penguin and other animals.

A RESTAURATEUR is banning bank managers from his eateries because he claims businesses are being "unfairly treated" in the credit crunch.

A CRATE of whisky that lay frozen and undiscovered for more than 100 years beneath the hut of one of the world's most famous Antarctic explorers is being thawed out live o

LOSING one life-sized bronze statue might be considered unfortunate - to lose two is more likely to be seen as carelessness.

YOU would not think a lack of heat would be much of a problem in many of Edinburgh's strip clubs.

AN ANGRY couple told yesterday how their car was written off during a garage test drive after it went in for repairs.

ALMOST half of Scots would give up sex for a year to become a millionaire - but only a third would quit Facebook.

A METAL detector enthusiast who found one of the largest hoards of Roman coins in Britain was hoping for a substantial reward after his find was declared treasure at an inques

LIKE armies, caterpillars march on their stomachs - only they do so literally, scientists have learned.

THE ashes of a cat that starred in Coronation Street for a decade fetched more than £800 at auction - five times the estimate.