Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible We are pleased to announce the birth of our second son Archie Drummond born in Sapan Soong, Bangkok at 3.30 this morning, June 12 2012. Archie is younger brother to Matthew, 2, and Annie, 4. Mother Pat Drummond is as usual doing very well. While Archie has been […]
A Flying Sporran Holiday Island Soap Report The Penguin, a flashy financial consultant exposed on this site last week, has had an adrenalised adventure. It seems the ‘Grumpy Old Men Society’ of Phuket has at least one member who is not just grumpy and irritable but downright livid. Hence the’Penguin’, real name Neal Davies, took […]
Flying Sporran Sunday June 4 2010 Well this is not quite a news flash. It happened on Saturday but regretfully Drummond has been taken ill for the last 36 hours. All current threats to www.andrew-drummond.com are now off. At a court hearing in Pattaya Drew Noyes withdrew all actions. These include An injunction to have this site […]
Now Thai Supplier Sought In Bali Drugs Case From Andrew Drummond, Denpasar, Bali May 30 2010 The British father of six-year-old Kitty Ponder broke his silence today to say Lindsay Sandiford set himself and his partner Rachel Dougall up with a damning haul of cocaine on the holiday island of Bali. As Bali police continued […]
‘Hello, I’m Kitty. You know just as in ‘Hello Kitty’ says girl whose parents have been taken away from her for ever it seems. The drug busts in Bali are hitting headlines around the world. A recent one involving several Britons is hitting all the UK Press and elsewhere. These stories can be emotive. Even ITN abandoned its […]
Tomorrow Saturday May 26th is D Day on attempts by Drew Noyes, publisher of the Pattaya Times, who has been joined by Niels Colov, publisher of the Pattaya People, to block this site from viewers in Thailand. So now I have to step back on reporting this issue and let a colleague journalist take over. On […]
English ‘Gentlemen’ Sometimes Don’t Mind Robbing Old Ladies May 17 2012 They call him ‘The Penguin’. Could it be because he has all the attributes of the fictitious villain in the ‘Batman’ comic – come- Hollywood hero series – a fiendish mind with a fishy smell about him? At any rate if you come across this British charmer and […]
May 15 2012 Seems Michael Helsby Knight wants his life back. New Zealand con man Michael Helsby Knight who pulled off various cons in Pattaya after being banned from ever trading in New South Wales, Australia, is apparently whinging about his reported death. He has been circulating an email showing himself holding up a copy […]
Glasgow Rangers football team and the commercial gay sex business in Pattaya, Thailand, are unlikely bedfellows. But both have come up again now Lord Justice Nimmo Smith – Nimmo the Dimmo – has been appointed to oversee the current enquiry into the football team. The judge is the story apparently – read here about planeloads […]
The Flying Sporran gets down and dirty in the beer bars of Pattaya to hunt down an ageing rock star who has reportedly faked his own death to avoid massive tax debts and now opened his own bars in the resort. In the process he meets an ‘Ex SAS’ man, and a former ‘armed robber’ . It wasn’t […]
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.