Welcome To Subo Country: Tourism Plan For Susan Boyle

By Cara Sulieman

SUSAN Boyle might be a jet-setting sensation after her meteoric rise to fame, but she has always made it clear that her heart lies in her humble hometown.

And now tourism bosses are hoping the global star can help them sing the praises of West Lothian and get visitors flocking to the area.

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They plan to turn the passionate Blackburn resident into an ambassador for the area as part of a new campaign to attract people to its “hidden gems” as a tourism mecca.

According to research carried out by the newly formed Visit West Lothian, most people in Central Scotland don’t know where it is, never mind international visitors.

Export

And many who do know its location describe it as “a place you would drive through to get somewhere else”.

But Anna Lightbody, tourism executive at Visit West Lothian, is hoping to change that with a little help from the area’s most famous export.

Susan Boyle cops arrest teenage housebreaking suspect

By Shaun Milne

A suspected teen burglar who helped force superstar Susan Boyle into quitting her Scots home has been arrested by police.

Detectives have spent just over a month probing an incident at Subo’s home in Blackburn on January 26 after the shocked star returned home to Yule Terrace from working in the big smoke only to be confronted by an intruder on her hallway.

Susan – who had been recording a charity single for the Haiti earthquake survivors earlier that day – was left badly shaken by the late night drama, so much so she has been talked into moving to a swanky new pad in London’s super-rich Chelsea.

Initially it had been thought the raider had fled the scene empty handed after being disturbed by Susan returning with a friend.

But it was revealed yesterday that a suspect had been apprehended by local police on what were described as “theft” charges.

Details of Boyle and Pebbles eight-month separation revealed

By Rory Reynolds

THEY were once inseparable and shot to stardom together, but Susan Boyle and her beloved cat Pebbles have been living apart for eight months.

The Britain’s Got Talent sensation – whose debut album topped the charts around the world – has visited her 11-year-old cat just three times since last July, it has been revealed.

Pebbles now lives with the elderly friend of one of Boyle’s management team in Wanstead, East London, after Simon Cowell said that travelling with a cat was a problem.

Retired accountant Pamela Eaton-Browne, who has been looking after Peebles for around eight months, said she is given just £4 per day to fund the cat’s lavish tastes.

The 76-year-old said: “One day Simon Cowell said to my friend, ‘do you know anyone who will look after this cat, because Susan’s flying all over the world and what do you do with the cat?’

Brother says SuBo has fame but no fortune, yet

By Michael MacLeod

SUSAN Boyle is still living off a £200 per-week allowance and “hasn’t seen a penny of her fortune” according to her brother.

The singing sensation is thought to be worth millions after her debut album shifted four million copies world-wide in just a month.

But her brother Gerry is urging her to leave her humble council house, fearing thieves are planning a raid when in fact she has “nothing worth stealing.”

His comments came as weekend reports claimed SuBo, 48, had a panic alarm fitted in her home after she found intruders lurking in her garden in the middle of the night.

Susan returns to Scotland after American album launch

By Cara Sulieman

A WINDSWEPT Susan Boyle breezed back into Scotland yesterday (Wed) after making a flying visit to America to launch her debut album.

And with her first disc ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ already going down a storm in the charts, SuBo said the outlook had never looked sunnier.

Sheltering from rain and gales with her trademark hair protected by a hood, she wandered around her locals shops almost unnoticed at first back in her West Lothian hometown of Blackburn.

Sporting a bright red scarf – complete with a badge of her pet cat Pebbles – she was eventually stopped by overjoyed friends and school children keen to welcome the star back home.

Susan Boyle’s local pub owned by elderly brothel magnate

By Rory Reynolds

THE FAMOUS pub where singing sensation Susan Boyle sang karaoke is run by one of Scotland’s most successful sex-for-sale sauna bosses.

Susan used to meet friends and sing her heart out at the Happy Valley Hotel in Blackburn, West Lothian, before she achieved worldwide fame.

But now it has been revealed that the man behind the friendly local is sleaze magnate Felice Di Resta – who also owns an Edinburgh lap dancing club and sex sauna.

Di Resta, who runs the hotel through his firm The Old Coach Inn Ltd, also owns Edinburgh strip club Bottoms Up, as well as the Ambassador Sauna.

The £1million-a-year company director said: “Susan still drops in for a drink and a visit.

“I’m going to buy her CD when it comes out, it’ll be a storm across the globe.

No fuss for Susan Boyle as film crew checks in

By Cara Sulieman

FANS failed to turn out for a Susan Boyle documentary when a Japanese film crew visited the Britain’s Got Talent star’s hometown of Blackburn today.

Two of SuBo’s biggest fans flew over from the States to meet up with a crew from Japan’s state broadcasters NHK to show them around the West Lothian town.

But they couldn’t find any of the singer’s fans so resorted to giving out badges featuring Susan’s smiling face to bemused passers-by.

Leslie McMillan – who had travelled from New York – said: “We just wanted to see where Susan Boyle was from and what her life was like before she became famous.”

Susan Boyle’s secret worry over new mum niece collapse

By Lauren Crooks

Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle is sick with worry after her favourite niece collapsed just weeks after giving birth to a baby boy.

Jacquelene Houston, 31, had been suffering dizzy spells, heaping stress on her famous aunt in the run up to the grand final of the contest.

Susan – who became an instant celebrity after her first appearance in the show and is competing for a chance to sing for the Queen on Saturday – has already snapped in public this week as pressure builds.

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And yesterday the tension mounted further as Jacquelene – daughter of Susan’s brother James – was rushed to hospital.

Collapsed

Medics said she had collapsed, falling down the stairs in her Bathgate home.

The news of the fall will add to Susan’s stress in the wake of Saturday’s live TV final – expected to be viewed by 100s of millions of people. Yesterday a close friend of Jacquelene said: “I was walking by and saw the ambulance outside their house.

“Jacqui has been having dizzy spells and I saw them going into the back.

“Stephen dumped his work van and jumped into their own car and sped off behind it.

“They are waiting to hear everything is okay.”

“I Want to Make My Dead Mum Proud”

By Lauren Crooks

BRITAIN’S Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle has vowed to make her dead mum proud – by singing for the Queen.

She revealed that is now her biggest ambition after proving to be the smash-hit in last night’s show.

And the 48-year-old virgin said that her success is all down to her beloved mum Bridget who urged her to do something with her singing talent – even making her join a choir aged 12.

Devoted Catholic Susan – who wowed judges with her performance of I Dreamed a Dream – spent years caring for her elderly mum before she died two years ago.