Efforts to put the second of two of the world’s biggest offshore wind turbines in place near the Beatrice Field in the Moray Firth have been postponed. The first tower and its components were taken by barge from the former oil fabrication yard at Nigg last month. However, the second turbine could not be floated due to poor weather and the heavy barge needed to carry out the task has been diverted to another job.
SSP organiser quits to join Sheridan
A former SSP regional organiser who gave evidence backing Tommy Sheridan during his libel trial against the News of the World has become the latest to quit the party. Jock Penman said he would now be joining Sheridan’s new Solidarity movement. The move came after the new party last week claimed that it had recruited more than two-thirds of the SSP’s parliamentary candidates for next year’s elections.
Tribute to airman
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The parents of one of the 14 British servicemen killed in the Afghanistan Nimrod crash yesterday paid tribute to their “outgoing and loving” son. Flight Sergeant Gary Andrews, 48, left, from Fochabers, Moray, was a wonderful father who had wanted to join the RAF since he was a boy, his parents Joyce and Peter said. He left a wife and two daughters.
Two escape injury in plane crash
A pilot and his passenger escaped injury when their light aircraft overshot the runway and crashed through a fence at an airfield on Mull yesterday. The accident happened at about 2.50pm on Glenforsa airfield as the aircraft was about to take off.
Space shuttle takes off after delay
The space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off yesterday on a mission to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster in 2003. The shuttle rose from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after two weeks of delays.
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Case of the solar-powered gnome
A man has been threatened with prosecution because he refuses to remove from his garden a gnome with a solar-powered glow. Police say that the ornament, dressed as a policeman, is part of a dispute that Gordon MacKillop, 46, is having with a neighbour in Liskeard, Cornwall, and that its presence amounts to harassment.
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