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Pub drinkers just miss masonry fall

... Edinburgh a : * The incident, on the éiz's Chambers Street on Sunday night, came barely two years after an Australian waitress was killed by falling masonry outside ‘another bar in the city. from %at Biblos bar at Sw. measured about four foot by three inches. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The boots found on the skeleton at the Tolbooth site. *

... public executions in the town. A crowd of 2,000 gathered to watch him going to his death, so frail he was carried to the scaffold in a chair. In a further twist, the archaeological team believe it has successfullly laid the ghost of Mair, whose famously ...

Published: Monday 22 May 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 366 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Building sites fail in safety blitz

... further 17 cases. Risks associated with working at height, like a lack of edge protection, working near roof openings, unsafe scaffolding, faulty equipment and inadequately uncovered “black holes to nowhere” were among the dangers uncovered R The risk of death ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

‘Within a few days, the rest of the work stopped for our smaller contracts’

... lorries driving near their property. And her general haulage clients - representing such industries as machinery, parts and scaffolding - did not want lorries, particularly from Dumfries and Galloway, anywhere near their businesses. Paterson was anticipating ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

There’s no mockery in Self-Portrait with a Model (1979), above, or The Tourists 11 (1988), left. Picture ..

... plinth. Dusty white, delicate and elegant as a piece of classical marble, it is called simply Abortion and represents a woman killed by a botched illegal abortion. Female Derelict is an equally graphic comment on homelessness, a different social ill, and ...

Published: Tuesday 17 December 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Call for IMasonry safety checks Edinburgh Correspondent

... Call for IMasonry safety checks Edinburgh Correspondent ‘WHEN Christine Foster was killed by falling masonry in Lt:t::. it was‘_{th‘outiht to have n little more than a freak accident. - - But four months after the Ryan's Bar waitress'’s death, the evidence ...

Published: Tuesday 17 October 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

meant to ‘go home and forget she had a son?’ The reply was: “Yes.” The following week events took an

... son had died in an accident, one officer illustrating how he’d stood up and fallen down no less than six times until he’d killed himself - a difficult feat for a sober person never mind someone almost comatose with alcohol. -The absurd ‘falling down’ ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 552 | Page: 100 | Tags: none

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... Lovat, was executed for his share in the Jacobite rising. The Scots Magazine reported that as he mounted the steps to the scaffold, assisted by two - warders, he looked round and, seeing so many people, declared: “God save us, why should there be such ...

Published: Monday 09 April 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 493 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Cagney's Oscar will be auctioned along with his 1961 Bentley

... the club flew back from Belgrade after a European Cup tie against Red Star. The plane careered off the runway and crashed, killing eight members of the Busby Babes, the club secretary, trainer and coach. Busby gave the crutches to Colin Whittaker, a winger ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MEDIA

... hype surrounding his killing n 16 May the media are off to see a killing. Not that many of us-myselfincluded-willactually see the death of Timothy McVeigh. Out of 1,400 media representatives who have applied to cover the judicial killing of the Oklahoma city ...

Published: Monday 16 April 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1108 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Pop goes the Roadshow

... unexplained figures - including a woman in a very bad maroon hat - who drift around the roufgrh. bright wooden frames and scaffolds of Aileen Stackhouse’s set. - But there’s finally something so persuasive about the mood Awarehaus creates - a kind of shimmering ...

Published: Monday 13 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 854 | Page: 16 | Tags: none