Bamboo breakthrough could save Giant Pandas

By Michael MacLeod 
GIANT Pandas could be saved by global warming – because it’s good for their diet.
In a bizarre twist of fate, boffins found that climate change can actually HELP bamboo flourish, which makes up 99 per-cent of the Panda diet.
There are now hopes the research by experts at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh [...]

Poppy cash swiped “by a junkie”

By Michael MacLeod
A HEARTLESS thief smashed into a cafe to steal a poppy collection box.
The red plastic poppy appeal box contained £50, which the angry shop owner fears will be spent on drugs.
Despite multiple break-ins, he insists he’ll keep on selling poppies, “for the good of the cause.”
The front door of Net’s Cafe in [...]

Banned councillor warns NHS: “I’ll be back”

By Michael MacLeod
THE maverick councillor banned from a hospital says “nobody is big enough” to stop her going back.
Ellen Glass was accused of stealing details from secret files in St John’s hospital, Livingston.
NHS bosses banned her, saying she pretended to be a hospital manager, then an MP, just to sneak in to a ward [...]

Shopkeeper Paints It Black Over Tram Work Fiasco

By Alexander Lawrie
AN ANGRY shopkeeper was forced to paint over bogus double yellow lines after bungling contractors put them in by mistake.
Gordon Burgess, owner of the Bed Shop in Edinburgh, turned up for work on Sunday morning to find workers had painted yellow lines all the way up Leith Walk as part of the ongoing, [...]

Skiiers unbreakable strength for childhood friend Colin

By Michael MacLeod
THE parents of world class Scots skier say they were worried he might die during a gruelling TV gameshow.
Winter Olympics hopeful Angus Morison is putting himself through a series of punishing TV survival challenges – as a tribute to his boyhood friend, the tragic rally driving champ Colin McRae.
Angus, [...]