New Statesman Scotland
A council tenant from Edinburgh has become Britain's first "neighbour from hell" to be convicted of breaching an anti-social behaviour order taken out against her by housing officials. The order was granted in September after Susan Cullen, 30, a mother of four, was reported on 16 occasions for playing loud music between March and July. In the latest incident police officers were called to her home shortly before 2am on Wednesday and took her into custody. She was held overnight in the cells before appearing in court. The sheriff said she was being punished for the loud volume of her music, rather than her atrocious taste. She was fined £100 under the Crime & Disorder Act of 1998.
The Herald
The late Colonel George Stephen of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards planned his memorial service before his death in September. The service went ahead in the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, with one alteration. Col Stephen's career included service in Aden and Oman and throughout the Arab world, where he was a trusted confidant of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of Jordan. To mark his affection for Islam he asked for a section of the Koran to be read among the Christian hymns and readings, but Presbyterian political correctness dictated that infidel stuff must be banned.
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