A LIVINGSTON punter bet £135,000 in cash on an England football victory to win just £675.
The experienced gambler bet on the squad beating minnows Andorra at odds of 200-1 on.
When England won 6-0 in their World Cup qualifier at Wembley last night, the gambler collected his stake back along with his £675 winnings.
Ladbrokes spokesm
an Robin Hutchison said: "I don't know what's less believable - a Scotsman backing England or some one risking £135,000 to win peanuts."
Fringe boss's box office pledge EDINBURGH Festival Fringe organisers yesterday promised that a new box-office system would not let down festival-goers.
"I am confident it's robust; I am confident it's been tested," said chief executive Kath Mainland.
Officially in the job for only two weeks, she said the box-office system had been her "main focus" since her appointment in February.
The Red61 ticketing system was used in the closing weeks of last year's Fringe, and the new version had been used at the Brighton Fringe and for a run of shows staged in London by the Fringe venue, Underbelly.
Susan Boyle takes up residence in LondonSUSAN Boyle moved into her new £2million flat after Simon Cowell's agents checked with the landlord that they would allow her cat.
The Britain's Got Talent singer has now moved into the converted convent with beloved pet Pebbles, it was reported.
Show sources last night told how Susan was being "wrapped in cotton wool" to help her recover from exhaustion before the BGT live tours, which start tomorrow.
Show judge Cowell is renting the London pad for five weeks.
Swine flu now a pandemicHEALTH chiefs in the Lothians are on stand-by to implement swine flu measures after it emerged the World Health Organisation was preparing to announce a pandemic.
It was reported this morning that a crisis WHO meeting later today would see the threat level raised to six - a global pandemic.
