A young driver who killed his friend in a car crash on a country road in Fife has been jailed for two and a half years. Daniel Brackenbury was speeding when he lost control of his vehicle and hit a bridge on the road between Anstruther and St Andrews in December 2010. In other news; A Perth man has been jailed for more than two years for a bizarre poisoning stunt which led to part of the city being cordoned off. Graeme Thompson called 999 and said he’d ingested razor blades and cymag in a bid to committ suicide in a “blaze of glory”. And in sport; Craig Levein says he’s 100 per cent happier with his squad then he was when he took on the Scotland job two years ago. This episode has been edited for rights reasons.
Sir Chris Hoy has secured his place as Britain’s greatest ever Olympian after winning the sixth gold medal of his career. The cyclist from Edinburgh won the keirin event in the last few minutes. Detectives in Midlothian are hoping that a rapist’s distinctive tattoos will help them find him before he strikes again. The man broke into his victim’s home in Dalkeith sometime after midnight on Sunday and assaulted her. The jury at a murder trial has seen shocking video footage of the elderly victim lying dead in the kitchen of her Perthshire home. It’s alleged eighty year-old Jenny Methven was bludgeoned to death by forty-six year-old William Kean in February. Students across Scotland have received their exam results – with record numbers passing Highers. More pupils also passed Advanced Highers and Standard Grades. The Chief Constable of Fife Constabulary is to stand trial after she denied causing a car crash which left another woman injured. The oil and gas industry is in line for a major jobs boost with a one point four billion pound project to develop a gas field in the North Sea. The consortium behind plans for a wind-farm off Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course, has said it wants to make its turbines even bigger. Holyrood has no legal power to hold a referendum on independence – according to MPs. The oil and gas industry is in line for a major jobs boost with a one point four billion pound project to develop a gas field in the North Sea. Leading scientist Professor …
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