European Court accepts plea of Thai wife married to Scots kilt maker Now she claims HE had ‘Turkish delights’ From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok December 25 2011 A Thai wife, who was blocked from returning to Scotland after her kilt-maker husband told British Border Agency officers that she had deserted him and was having an affair, has […]
December 25 2010A Flying Sporran ‘Get you home service’A Merry Christmas to you all and especially to Anna Lee whom we escorted to Suvarnabhumi airport on Christmas Eve on a flight home to Canada.Anna lost everything in Thailand and will have to start life over again in a shelter in Vancouver. She had been trying […]
WAR OVER PATTAYA 105 INTERVIEW Andrew Drummond December 21 2010 Pattaya 105 – The Big Show with Andrew Drummond Shucks. It seemed like Gettysburg all over again. From the north came Stuart Furstman, 63, a no-nonsense New York publisher, who let off a barrage of abuse at the Southerner he says has cheated him. Then […]
ANDREW DRUMMONDDecember 19 2011(This story has been re-submitted after a programme glitch)Soi Thonglor in Bangkok is best known for its upmarket bars and restaurants and is a fitting place for such a noble institution as the Accademia Italiana, a place of learning for followers of fashion and design. So it’s hard to believe how this […]
A FLYING SPORRAN OVERVIEW (This replaces a story originally publish a week ago which developed a glitch) Updated December 18 2011 There’s an interesting buzz going on down in Pattaya. Niels Colov, that all round good guy has gone to press with a warning about what can happen to people who libel him and he […]
December 12 2011 A Flying Sporran Advisory Harris Black is bad news. A lot of people know that. In fact there is a website dedicated to his activities which seems to be added to with ominous regularity. This Canadian is one of these unstoppable conmen, blackmailers and fraudsters who now seems to have made Thailand […]
BOILER ROOM CLOSES AFTER FLYING SPORRAN REPORT Bangkok December 8 2011 – A Flying Sporran Enquiry BREAKING NEWSSince the story below was publish early today Asia Green Technologies Ltd has gone into ‘dormancy’ but not for the reasons they state. Their announcements are at the end of this report.Link here – it won’t be up for long A […]
A Flying Sporran EnquiryTuesday December 6 2011A boiler room exposed on this site last year has re-invented itself under different names in Bangkok, as they always do, so here is a warning for you chaps out there, who do not know what to do with your savings. Do not give any cash to Asian Green […]
Briton Malcolm Leggett, 60, is working a rice paddy in Northern Thailand. He lost almost everything. But the cruelest cut of all came, he says, after he went to the President of the local Pattaya Expats Club for advice – A Flying Sporran Enquiry BANGKOK MONDAY DECEMBER 5 2011 This is 60-yr-old Malcolm Leggett. He used to be […]
From ANDREW DRUMMOND,Bangkok, November 30 2011 By day he teaches youngsters at a school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. But when he is off duty, people believe, he writes in to a website dedicated to stories of sexual abuse of children as young as 6-yrs-old. But this week the teacher, an elderly Briton, claimed his identity had been stolen, thus […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.