2011

Breaking News: Flying Sporran attacked – see below Starting this week investigations on this website will go out under the ‘Flying Sporran’ banner. Anyone who has travelled the road from Fort Augustus on Loch Ness in Invernessshire towards Auchterawe and the vitrified fort will know all too well the dangers of flying sporrans from the […]

No need to go into any further details. You can listen to the interview, which lasts about 50 minutes.  Not much happens for the first five minutes though. That’s Tommy’s promos, which I did not hear, where he is inviting people to listen to find out whether I am a criminal, alcoholic,or failure. The only thing they appear […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, November 29 2011(Updated December 1 2011) A Philippines senator has been asked to look at the case of a young Filipina woman, who was enticed to work in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya by an American newspaper publisher, then forced to leave after she claimed she refused to become his mistress.Although the woman, […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok 28 November 2011 THAI COURTS COME LAST WHEN SEEKING JUSTICE IN THAILAND   The conversation was not muted at all but I guess we were out of earshot of most of the golfers practising their swings at Pattaya Driving Range.  One Asian golfer slicing a ball into the netting to his […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK NOVEMBER 23 2011 A 69-year-old Briton and regular on the Pattaya gay forums has won undisclosed damages from the SUN newspaper after they described him a ‘paedo’ when he was arrested in a joint CEOP-Thai Police operation in May 2009. George Stanley Gibbs was subsequently acquitted of all charges except immigration offences. At the time […]

Update: But a furious Noyes now threatens girl in Philippines  From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK November 19 2011 American publisher Drew Noyes has interrupted his business trip to Angeles City in the Philippines to take the unusual step to announce in his newspaper website that he is not having sex there. In an exclusive story in the Pattaya Times he puts on his […]

From ANDREW DRUMMOND, BangkokNovember 16 2011  Officials of Pattaya’s  Consumer Protection unit have appealed again to the outgoing President of the city’s biggest Rotary Club to attend city hall for an interview over complaints that he has scammed scores of foreigners out of their holiday and retirement homes.As the list of angry victims of the ‘Emerald Palace’ […]

FROM ANDREW DRUMMOND, BANGKOK November 17 2011 The outgoing President of a Pattaya Rotary Club reacted with vengeance today after allegations that he scammed scores of foreigners out of their homes, and cheated them on rents. 63-yr-old Richard Haughton ordered water and electricity to be cut off from residents from his Lake Villas project  in Pattaya […]

OUT OF TOWN – DIARYFrom ANDREW DRUMMOND,November 15 2011 Joseph McCluskey, aged 74, is a charming and witty Scotsman from Ayr – ‘Rabbie Burns Country’ – and has lived in ‘The Village’, Pattaya, since he retired from teaching.He admits at his age obviously his faculties have waned a bit. He has Parkinson’s disease, sometimes gets […]

A Flying Sporran Enquiry, BangkokNovember 9th 2011  (Updated 11-11-11)  The British President of a Rotary Club in Thailand has reportedly been detained and had his passport confiscated after being accused of swindling foreign property investors out of millions of pounds. Richard Haughton, 63, a former Tupperware salesman, from Birmingham, was cautioned by officers of the Department of Special Investigation from Chonburi […]