ROCK group Angus and Malcolm Young has continued their international domination – by launching a new range of wines.
The Australian alcohol, which launches on Thursday, will initially only be available Down Under.
Varieties are thought to include Back in Black Shiraz, Highway to Hell Cabernet Sauvignon and You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato.
The Warburn Estate winery is the brains behind the beverage, which will be made from grapes from the in the Barossa and Coonawarra regions of Australia.
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A Scottish fire brigade is using two four-legged detectives to help sniff out arsonists across the country.
Five-year-old Springer Spaniel Mitch and seven-year-old collie Jay are specially trained to sniff out chemical accelerants used to start fires and have been working with Central Scotland Fire and Rescue for the last few years.
Along with their handler Trevor Lynch, they form the only fire-service owned canine investigation team in Scotland.
The dogs help to significantly reduce the time and money spent on investigating deliberate fires.
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A patient at Edinburgh’s main psychiatric hospital has been left in a serious condition after another patient jumped on his head.
The 20-year-old man was left with horrific head injuries after he was attacked at the Royal Edinburgh in Morningside.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder and have arrested a 24-year-old and detained him under the Mental Health Act. His victim remains unconscious in hospital.
A source described the scene as “like a car accident and claimed staffing problems meant the ward was not being properly monitored.
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Charity shops receive all manner of donations but one branch Capability Scotland had a more unusual contribution when they received two cats.
The terrified moggies were dumped inside a black bin bag which was handed in to the charity’s branch in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh, where they lay undiscovered for two days.
The cats, since named Whiskers and Paws, are now in the care of Lothian Cat Rescue after being discovered by store manager Sean O’Brien.
Mr O’Brien, 46, believed the bags to contain the usual donations of bric-a-brac or clothes and was shocked to find the cats peering back at him from inside a cat carrier.
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A MOTORCYCLIST has had a lucky escape after surviving a 45mph crash with a van.
The 53 year old male collided with a transit-style vehicle at around 10.40 this morning (fri).
The accident happened at the junction of Gray’s Loan and Ashley Terrace in Edinburgh.
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A NURSE has been charged with forcing a patient’s faeces-covered hand into her face.
Margaret Richmond, 55, is accused of abusing five patients, aged between 74 and 88 years, in her care at Westlea Care Home in Renfrewshire between 2007 and 2008.
It’s alleged that in October 2007 Richmond took the hand of an elderly patient, which was covered in faecal matter and showed it to her, saying “Yes, that’s shite, s-h-i-t-e”.
Richmond is also accused of telling the patient “You are all covered in shit” on two separate occasions.
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JOHN Cleese has used Twitter to turn the tables on a paparazzo who photographed him outside his home.
The Monty Python comedian sent a message to his 1.3 million followers asking them to help identify the snapper.
He posted two pictures taken by his assistant Garry Scott-Irvine of the man apparently sitting on a moped outside his home.
He also complained that the man had taken a note of his address.
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Jimmy Ewan went missing from the Celebrity Century cruise liner in 2006
A MAN who went missing from a cruise ship five years ago has been traced – to a pauper’s grave in Portugal.
Jimmy Ewan was deemed “lost at sea” after vanishing from a trans-atlantic voyage.
Friends of the 73-year-old gave up hope of finding him alive and held a memorial service for him in his hometown of Burntisland in Fife.
But it’s now been discovered that his body was washed up on a beach in the Portuguese town of Faro in 2008 and buried in a pauper’s grave.
His friend John Cooper now plans to mark the grave in the Cemiterio de Faro with a headstone.
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The crowd appear to help the injured man...
CALLOUS rioters went to the aid of an injured man – only to rob him seconds later.
The unidentified man was filmed sitting in a pool of blood, clutching his head when he was seemingly approached by a good Samaritan.
A young black man appears to help the man to his feet and supports him as he staggers a few yards.
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