9am briefing: Fancy Dress Rangers yobs sentenced over sectarian Buckfast incident

Two of the yobs hurled sectarian abuse at other passengers and the third threw a Buckfast bottle at a man wearing a Hibs jersey, breaking his nose and fracturing his eye socket, Livingston Sheriff Court heard yesterday.

Darren Kelly, Michael McGookin and Gary Miller, from Fallin in Stirlingshire, were dressed as Spiderman, Batman and "Pimpman" during the incident on the Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane train on Halloween 2009.

Kelly, 27, admitted culpably and recklessly throwing the bottle which injured Hibs fan Stephen Millar.

McGookin, 25, and Miller, 25, both admitted committing a breach of the peace by acting together in a disorderly manner, engaging in a fight and repeatedly uttering sectarian remarks.

The trio narrowly escaped being sent to prison.

Evening News team win reporting award

THE Edinburgh Evening News toasted success at the 32nd annual Scottish Press Awards last night after scooping Journalism Team of the Year.

News health reporter Adam Morris collected the gong for a series of articles he led revealing the problems at the heart of the Sick Kids' New Pyjamas fundraising campaign.

Victoria Raimes was nominated in the Young Journalist of the Year category and Frank Boyle in the Cartoonist of the Year category.

It was also a memorable night for our sister papers The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, which collected five honours between them.

Lawyer slams "terrorists" behind letter bomb campaign

A TOP lawyer who was sent a parcel bomb has branded its sender "despicable and cowardly", describing it as a "terrorist act".

Paul McBride QC said he was "angry but not frightened in the slightest".

He was targeted in the past month along with Celtic manager Neil Lennon and former Labour MSP Trish Godman.

Strathclyde Police said the two packages sent to Lennon, and others to lawyer Mr McBride and Ms Godman, were "designed to cause real harm to the person who opened them".