NB: Parahawking continues in Nepal despite the threat. For up to date information contact Scott Mason through his website – www.parahawking.comLink to Daily MailLink to Evening StandardPictures: Scott MasonFrom Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, February 17 2010Londoner Scott Mason, the ‘Birdman of Dagenham’, who runs a vulture rescue centre in the Himalayas, today faced being shut down […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Monday February 15 2010The British Foreign Office has issued a diplomatic note to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs covering a letter expressing fears that an attempt made be made to abduct an 11-yr-old pupil at an international school in Bangkok. The move followed a complaint by John Goodman, 50, the Bangkok based […]
UPDATE: Peter Storrow was discharged of his bankruptcy on May 24 2010 So there I was singing ‘The wheels of the buss go round round, round, round’ to daughter Annie when my computer whirrs, coughs, spits, rings a bell and up comes that name again, flashing on screen…Peter Storrow. Readers of this blog will remember […]
A retired British banker told yesterday how he raced against death after two gunmen ambushed him and his family on an isolated road in the Philippines. But the former RBS-Natwest executive denied reports that he was responsible for the deaths of the two teenagers, aged 17, and 19, who were later found dead at the […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Feb 2 2009 An elderly Briton, who described himself as a retired banker, said he ran down two teenagers killing them both when they ambushed him with a gun on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, police said today. In a bid to protect his 28-yr-old Filipina wife Juriza, and […]
THOUSANDS OF IDIOTS DETECTED Blog only Knock! Knock! Anybody there?They don’t get it do they. The total combined intellect of the Bangkok Post has not yet cottoned on to the fact that the GT-200 is a total hoax, as are the Sniffex, ADE651, and Alpha 6 bomb/drugs/ insurgent detectors which Thailand has bought by the cart-load. I […]
BUT TRUCE NOW DECLARED!Blog Only(UPDATED July 2010)Pattaya Times accused Pattaya People boss of involvement in ‘gold share scam’ – then ‘withdraws’ allegation.Pattaya Daily News publishes link to ‘criminal record’ of Pattaya People boss – then withdraws link. The first shots have been be fired in a Pattaya newspaper war. A new-comer on the scene, ‘The Pattaya Times’ engineered by an […]
‘His adopted son was by his side’From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok – January 26 2010A flamboyant Scots businessman Martin Frutin, who left Scotland after being convicted of possessing child pornography in his Edinburgh mansion died in the Thai resort of Pattaya early today. Martin Frutin with Scots musician Frankie Miller – May 2005 Martin Frutin, one time […]
Blog onlyToday a pink and red faced son William Matthew Drummond, younger brother to Annie 2 years 4 months, made his debut shortly after 7 am, to the delight of his mother Pat and father journalist Andrew Drummond, at a hospital in Thailand, near a 7/11, a canal, a motorcycle queue, and a lot of […]
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok Action by the British Government to ban the bogus ADE651 explosives detectors which have been sold to Iraq will put the spotlight on the Thai government over the GT- 200, also sold by a British company. The GT-200 has been credited with little more than attributing to the deaths of people in the […]
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.