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By Cara Sulieman
A SCOTS garden centre is stocking live hens for sale – after a six week trial saw them flying out the door.
Gardening giants Dobbies were left cock a hoop after more than 1000 hens were picked up by customers in little over a month.
And demand for the egg laying birds was so high they are now offering five different breed across selected stores.
Starting at £25, the birds allow wannabe farmers the chance to produce their own eggs for the kitchen table.
Ricci Foreman tried to save tragic Jessica McCagh after her boyfriend set her slight and trapped her in his flat.
By Cara Sulieman and Paul Thornton
A YOUNG man who dragged a teenage girl from a flat after her boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her on fire was among 50 heroes to be recognised by a new award presented for the first time today.
Ricci Foreman, 20, was presented with a Brave@Heart award for his attempt to rescue Jessica McCagh after a horrific fire attack by twisted killer Stewart Blackburn.
The hero was just 19 years old when he tried to save Jessica, 17, at her flat in Arbroath in April last year.
He battled a blazing and smoke filled room to repeatedly pour a fish tank of water over the girl, who had been set on fire with petrol, and helped her out of the home.
Jessica tragically lost her fight for life later the same day.
Blackburn was later given a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years behind bars after being convicted of murder.
A DUNDEE United fan was attacked and robbed of his scarf just hours after the team won the Scottish Cup final.
The 43 year-old was walking on Brook Street, just north of the city’s university campus, when he was assaulted.
Three teenagers shoved him to the ground and made off with his Tangerines scarf.
Police have appealed for witnesses to Saturday’s 10.30pm robbery.
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By Paul Thornton
FEARS were growing this morning for a vulnerable 15-year-old boy who went missing from his home in Dundee.
Brendan Carroll has not been seen since Friday and Tayside Police are appealing for information about his whereabouts.
The lad, from the city’s Clovis Duveau Drive, is described as six-foot tall, with long brown hair and blue eyes.
Officers said that the slimly built boy was wearing a grey DKNY hooded top, a pin Lacoste T-shirt, blue jeans and white Adidas trainers when he disappeared.
All flights in and out of the UK have been cancelled
By Cara Sulieman & Rory Reynolds
THOUSANDS of passengers were stranded at Edinburgh Airport today (Thursday) as volcanic ash moved into Scottish airspace.
Staff at the airport greeted passengers with the news that the eruption in Iceland had sent a mass of ash into the atmosphere, grounding planes across the country.
With little information available, holiday makers and businessmen were trying to find other ways to get to their destination.
Tanya Nixon, 27, and her seven-year-old daughter Alessia Fortunato had travelled from Sunderland to fly with Ryanair to Pisa.
By Paul Thornton
THE former chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament has branded the organisation a “talking and knocking shop” for youngsters obsessed with boozing, sex and drugs.
With a Scottish Government grant of £250,000 every year the SYP has a substantial budget to help feed the views of 14 to 26 year olds across the country into executive policy.
But the former head of the group, Kieran Collins, 26, has said that weekend get-togethers for the 150 or so members were riddled with underage drinking, sexual activity and even drugs.
By Cara Sulieman
A SCOTTISH artist has slammed the traditional village crafts fair for dumbing down the industry.
Georgina Follett said that they focus too much on the skill of making the object and not enough on the thought process behind it.
Her criticism comes after the announcement of Craft Festival Scotland – the country’s first ever national craft fair designed to challenge people’s preconceptions of crafts.
But Professor Follett said that it wasn’t going far enough and that Scotland is “getting it wrong” when it comes to promoting traditional arts.
By Cara Sulieman
A BOOZY teacher has been given three months to prove she has her drink problem under control – or face losing her career.
Education chiefs yesterday heard how Mary Gray had admitted turning up to work reeking of alcohol on three separate occasions.
She worked at Morgan Academy in Dundee when the alarm was raised after she arrived at the school smelling of booze in 2007 and 2008.
The art teacher – from Dundee – has now gone into counselling for alcohol dependency after the incidents on February 20 and March 21 2007, and March 13 2008.
By Andrea McCallum
HOSPITAL admissions rocket when Scotland’s football teams suffer defeat, according to new figures.
An investigation linking Saturday scores and casualty queues has proven that hospital visits increase when Premier League teams do badly.
The figures reflect hospital admissions in two-team city hospitals like Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee – and show that in one-team city Aberdeen the trend is reversed.
Admissions to A&E units on Saturdays at Scotland’s hospitals were compared to club results over a year.
By Cara Sulieman
A FIRE engine on the way to a false alarm hit a car carrying a wheelchair bound man and his son.
Tayside Fire and Rescue were called out to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee at 12.25pm and sent two engines from Macalpine Road fire station.
On the way to the call, one of the engines collided with a car despite having their warning lights and sirens on.
The firefighters called out the ambulance and helped the two men out of the car while they waited.
In the meantime, two more engines were sent to Ninewells, where they found the alarm had been set off accidentally by engineers working on the system.
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