Parking spaces can be hard to find in the New Town

Picture from The Scotsman.

"Today there was more than the usual excitement on North Castle Street.

Short version of story is that Car thief/ Joyrider steals car...drives up North Castle Street being hotly pursued by the polis...hangs a left into Thistle Street at speed and loses control...car ends up in the basement area of the building on the corner...My office is just about directly opposite this and I got some photos..."

Check out this Flickr set from graemeandsandra of the fun.

Headlines: proof that smoking wrecks lives

• A tale of woe from Tollcross, as those dastardly smokers force a man to fire his own mother. How do they sleep at night? The nicotine probably helps.


• The Romanov empire continues to expand - soon it'll eclipse the sun with its massed ranks of Lithuanian youngsters and ineffectual Brazilians.