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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Alex Salmond will be nervously keeping an eye on his front door after thieves stole a brass name plate from a neighbouring building.
Bute House, the First Minister’s official residence, has two such plaques displayed prominently either side of the front door.
Thieves targeted an office building opposite the residence over the weekend – making off with a name plate worth around £250.
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NHS staff were stopped from working at hospitals nearer their home during the worst winter weather in 40 years due to red tape, it has emerged.
NHS Lothian staff living in Fife and the Borders who were unable to get to Edinburgh because of snow walked or drove to their nearest NHS base only to be turned away because of concerns over insurance cover and liability.
Health chiefs in Edinburgh were astounded that their employees’ quick thinking, dedication and determination was snubbed by neighbouring health boards, and vowed to address the problem.
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THE driver of the train which plunged into the Tay when the Tay Bridge collapsed is to have his grave marked more than 130 years after the event.
David Mitchell was one of 75 souls to die in the Tay Bridge Disaster in 1879.
His body was one of the few recovered after the accident and he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave in Leslie,Fife.
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BARMY council chiefs are set to open a new visitor centre on the site of a new waste facility.
Edinburgh and Midlothian councils have submitted plans for the attraction at their new food and residual waste treatment facility at Millerhill inMidlothian.
The visitor centre will allow school pupils and community groups to tour the plant and see how waste is sorted and treated.
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