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 […]
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 […]
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.