Livingston (Scotland)

'Date rape drugs factory' couple escape being prosecuted

Nov 17 2008 By Lynn Davidson A COUPLE at the centre of a £4.4million "date rape" drug case have escaped prosecution because of a legal loophole. Israeli citizen Hanan Rabin, 55, and Denise Macpherson, 47, were charged after...

BT to abandon next gen broadband

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Friday 14 November 2008. 15:30:00 Shareholder rats chew through wires FORGET EVERYTHING you’ve been promised by BT. We’re probably never going to get the much-anticipated super-fast broadband we’ve all...

Other - Physician

Seaboard Health Care Search - Livingston, West Lothian - Hospital is seeking to add an additional Family Practice Physician with Obstetrics. Livingston Regional Hospital is a 114 bed facility with 6-birthing suites in our...

Tenpin kingpin beats the odds to score 12 strikes in a row

A TEENAGE tenpin bowler beat odds of 11,500-1 by scoring a maximum 12 strikes in a row. Piet Shaeffer achieved the feat in a league game at Deer Park Golf and Country Club in Livingston, West Lothian. Officials presented the...

Vicky was 'really nervous' about bus journey, sister tells court

Vicky Hamilton's sister, Sharon Brown, said the pair hugged each other before Vicky boarded a bus home The older sister of Vicky Hamilton, the schoolgirl who disappeared 17 years go, said today that the teenager had been...

I Was Kicked So Hard My Eyeball Fell Into My Head

Nov 7 2008 By Dave Finlay Victim's Ordeal In Attack Outside Pub THE victim of a savage kicking told a judge yesterday how his eyeball fell inside his skull after the attack. David Farrell, 44, said: "My right eye socket was...

Exclusive: Electronics company axe 250 jobs

Nov 6 2008 By Lynn Davidson AN ELECTRONICS firm who were handed more than £500,000 of taxpayers' money to safeguard jobs have put 250 staff out of work. Yesterday morning, California based Gemfire, told workers at the plant in...

Xcitement as fire-hit leisure centre reopens

Published Date: 04 November 2008 THE Xcite Leisure Centre has re-opened more than a year after it was closed by a massive fire. The centre in Livingston has been closed since June last year, following the extensive damage...

Two trucks left burnt out in suspicious fire

Published Date: 03 November 2008 POLICE are investigating a suspicious fire which burnt out a tipper truck and convoy truck in Howden in Livingston, West Lothian, on Hallowe'en night. At around 9pm on Friday fire and rescue...

'Accident prone' BT's global chief Barrault quits

Published Date: 01 November 2008 FRANCOIS Barrault quit as head of BT's global services business yesterday after the telecoms group issued a shock profits warning which sent shares tumbling to their lowest level in more than 20...