2013

FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY- (Picture: Home Sweet Home) I am sure someone is going to come back with a perfectly sensible answer but I am wondering why banks in Thailand give better mortgage rates for people buying news houses rather than people buying older ones. I had someone check the banks recently for mortgages and […]

 THAI DELEGATE BEATEN TO DEATH AFTER HESITATING WITH HER SECURITY PASS A 35-year-old security guard at Scotland’s Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow has admitted beating a Thai woman delegate to death with a fire extinguisher after she was hesitant about producing her pass. Clive Carter told the High Court in Glasgow:  “When I was […]

INVESTORS CASH GOES UP IN SMOKE- A company run by an Australian born Sri Lankan and employing foreign salesmen looks like it may have taken Thai citizens for a stunning 1,600 million baht (£31.65 million) by selling them trees, er, in Thailand. At a meeting of the Touchwood Investors Group last night investors from the […]

A former Pattaya Brit, Ray Teret,  a chauffeur to disgraced British celebrity Jimmy Savile, has been taken into custody by British police in Manchester. A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: “A 71 year-old-man was re-arrested in connection with historic sexual offences against children when he answered his bail on Wednesday October 23.” “He was […]

‘ONE STOP SERVICES’  COULD NOT EVEN GET CLIENT’S NAME RIGHT IN FAMILY COURT.- A British pensioner who coughed up over 340,000 baht to the Pattaya company ‘One Stop Service Center’ for a divorce has found that the company’s incompetence has rendered a court matrimonial settlement totally illegal. Kenneth Blundell, 65, a retired heating engineer from […]

BRITS BEHAVING BADLY – THAILAND TO GET NEW DOSE FOR BRITISH TELEVISION Brace yourselves for another massive dose of Brits behaving badly in Thailand. The new genre of British television which spends half the summer in Europe following Brits around the Costas and Greece –  now chases them during the winter months in Thailand. To […]

THE BANGKOK POST DESCRIBED THIS AS A WHITEWASH. No fall guy for an illegal club operation as Godfather owner goes free- The owner of the Santika Night Club in Bangkok which burned down killing 67 people and injuring another 200, some seriously, today walked free from the Appeal Court after they found him not guilty. […]

WILL LIFE, AS ANDREW DRUMMOND KNOWS IT, STILL EXIST? PLUS – PATTAYA PUBLISHER WARNED CASE WILL BE DISMISSED IF HE FAILS TO ATTEND. AND THERE’S MORE – NOYES MAKES HIS OWN TV DEBUT WITH RUSSIAN WOMEN, A RETIRED SERVICEMAN AND THE BOSS OF THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION! Amerikanets v sluchayakh moshennichestva […]

Publisher promises to bring out the dirt on witness unless he testifies for him Controversial Pattaya ‘businessman’ Drew Noyes has sent a message to whom he believes is the owner of the now defunct website forum SubZeroSiam saying he will bring out the dirt on him unless he testifies against British journalist Andrew Drummond. Noyes, […]

Last night this website topped 250,000 readers in the last month which is worth having a small beer to celebrate. Today it also should top that amount. The counter resets itself each day at 7 am. I think it will settle down at around this level. Good news all around. Although we are about three […]