2012
GUNNED DOWN AND CRIPPLED FOR LIFE – A FORMER U.S. MARINE CRIES OUT FORJUSTICE
‘MY MOTHER’S NOT SAFE’ – SAYS ALLEGED HITMAN A FLYING SPORRAN ENQUIRY – June 19 2012 The case against those who ordered the shooting of a retired U.S. Marine in Hua Hin in Thailand’s Prachuap Khiri Kan province in 2008 has allegedly become bogged down in threats, delays, and bribes. Now nearly four years on Donald Whiting, 68, […]
We can identify Britain's unknown soldiers on the Death Railway!
From Andrew Drummond, Kanchanaburi, Thailand June 17 2012 The historical adviser to the film ‘The Railway Man’ said he hoped to clear the mystery of Britain’s ‘unknown soldiers’ buried in the war cemeteries in Thailand and Burma at the close of the Second World War. Rod Beattie, director of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, and representative […]
Mutiny on the 'Death Railway'
From Andrew Drummond IN BANGKOK (click here for) Mail on Sunday – June 17 2010 THE prisoners of war were at breaking point. All day long they had been kept at a Thai railway marshalling yard in the tropical heat, covered in grime, drenched in sweat, prodded and pushed by Japanese guards shouting from the […]
Exposed! Thailand's 'Mr.Stig'
Coming tomorrow on www.andrew-drummond.com . He laughs in the face of danger. He was stabbed by a Vietnamese bar owner in the hunt for Gary Glitter, stared down a ‘Chelsea headhunter’ as this site’s host was beaten to a pulp in Pattaya, and bravely sipped pina coladas in the pursuit of the Duke of York and […]
To Andrew and Pat Drummond A Son – Archie, Lord of the Glen and Khlongs
Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible We are pleased to announce the birth of our second son Archie Drummond born in Sapan Soong, Bangkok at 3.30 this morning, June 12 2012. Archie is younger brother to Matthew, 2, and Annie, 4. Mother Pat Drummond is as usual doing very well. While Archie has been […]
Balloons On Bangkok's Sky Train – The Sequel
Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Diary June 7 2012. A short update on an incident earlier this year when a young Irish teacher overreacted and suffered the consequences after taking his six-year-old daughter’s balloons onto the Bangkok Sky Train. Also a guide for readers on what not to take on to the city’s mass transit system. Good heavens what is […]
GRUMPY OLD MAN STRIKES BACK IN PHUKET – FISTS FLY PHOTO EXCLUSIVE
A Flying Sporran Holiday Island Soap Report The Penguin, a flashy financial consultant exposed on this site last week, has had an adrenalised adventure. It seems the ‘Grumpy Old Men Society’ of Phuket has at least one member who is not just grumpy and irritable but downright livid. Hence the’Penguin’, real name Neal Davies, took […]
NEWS FLASH: ALL THREATS TO THIS NEWS AND INVESTIGATION SITE ARE OFF
Flying Sporran Sunday June 4 2010 Well this is not quite a news flash. It happened on Saturday but regretfully Drummond has been taken ill for the last 36 hours. All current threats to www.andrew-drummond.com are now off. At a court hearing in Pattaya Drew Noyes withdrew all actions. These include An injunction to have this site […]
Cocaine! Just Like Giving Candy To A Baby.
Now Thai Supplier Sought In Bali Drugs Case From Andrew Drummond, Denpasar, Bali May 30 2010 The British father of six-year-old Kitty Ponder broke his silence today to say Lindsay Sandiford set himself and his partner Rachel Dougall up with a damning haul of cocaine on the holiday island of Bali. As Bali police continued […]
Tragedy of a 6-year-old cocaine 'orphan' called Kitty
‘Hello, I’m Kitty. You know just as in ‘Hello Kitty’ says girl whose parents have been taken away from her for ever it seems. The drug busts in Bali are hitting headlines around the world. A recent one involving several Britons is hitting all the UK Press and elsewhere. These stories can be emotive. Even ITN abandoned its […]
