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 […]
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, […]
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’ […]
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 […]
Well it had to happen sooner or later I guess. The ‘Adolf Hitler’ video has another new script this time featuring both American Drew Noyes and his friend Dane Niels Colov, both of whom have newspapers, property companies, and legal offices in Pattaya. This comes to you courtesy of ‘Pattayascams’. I don’t know who they […]
A British blogger known as Spike Tennyson, who ran a website called ‘Pattayadays’ has apparently fled Thailand after he claims he received threats to his personal safety by Jeff Savage – the Briton caught on video threatening to burn down Central World during the red-shirt troubles in Bangkok. Jeff Savage, 48, from Tonbridge, Kent, pleaded guilty to breaching […]
Having been reporting on Thailand’s floods and the price of eggs now it’s time to take a break. Whose fault was the flooding? Was it the fault of Thai government, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, the Irrigation authorities, Yingluck herself? I needed to turn to my old bête noire the ‘Pattaya Times’ on the eastern seaboard for some […]
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.