Guilty Darren’s driving days are over after 4am smash

By Michael MacLeod

SHAMED actor Darren Day made a grovelling apology after being banned from driving for five years and fined £1250 for crashing his wife’s top of the range Mercedes whilst drunk.

After a two-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court the former I’m A Celebrity star – who was yesterday found guilty of possessing a Ninja style cosh – revealed the December smash was also partly to blame for the split from his partner Stephanie Dooley.

Speaking outside court, a smartly dressed but sad looking Day said: “I am truly, deeply and sincerely sorry for what I have done.”

Day was engaged five times before wedding the ex-Emmerdale actress two years ago.

Sir Jimmy’s jaunty tunes “better than Rolling Stones”

By Michael MacLeod

SCOTS trad music legend Sir Jimmy Shand was better than the Rolling Stones, according to the Beatles’ official biographer.

The Fab Four’s best-known expert Hunter Davies believes Shand and his band would have been the greatest British act in history if the Beatles had never existed.

While the Stones have sold 68million albums in America alone, the renowned accordion player’s best-selling single – Bluebell Polka – only ever shifted 100,000 copies.

But author Davies, who was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, says he was raised on Shand’s music and says there is no doubt the ex-miner was head and shoulders above Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.

And he admits that before becoming the Beatles’ biographer he even tried to follow in Shand’s footsteps in a bid to launch a music career.