Talk of the Town: Mob to flash up on city's big screen

IT started off as a flash mob in a shopping mall and now it has spread to the Capital's big screen.

Students from Edinburgh's Telford College launched the first public airing of a flash mob, which was created to mark the opening of one of Scotland's largest training providers in the performing arts.

Around 90 dance and theatre students surprised shoppers at the Omni Centre and Princes Mall recently to create the short, spontaneous film as part of celebrations for the opening of the college's new Performing Arts Studio Scotland.

The mob will now be screened in Festival Square every day until the end of August, meaning you can get all the spontaneity of a flash mob on a regular daily basis.

Kevin goes through hell with freak treadmill injury

WHAT'S the worst part of being a footballer? Maybe it's falling off a treadmill.

Former Hibs star Kevin Thomson has been tweeting after his freak ankle injury in training. The player, now at Middlesbrough, was left with a leg in a cast after coming off a treadmill in a gym in the Capital.

The player has had to deal with injury before, missing most of the 2004-5 season at Hibs and months at Rangers after surgery. He's tweeted his thanks to fans, adding: "Thanks for the support. It is what it is. Maybe some people, not all, will now ask themselves what is the worst part of being a footballer."

Try again for cap query

A NEW museum has been pledged for Scottish Rugby headquarters at Murrayfield.

This follows a successful AGM motion backed up by heartfelt pleas from some of those who served in the now-defunct library while seeking to illustrate the important role it served.

"We had one visitor seeking confirmation that an ancestor had represented Scotland in 1905 and we were pleased to confirm he had, in fact, been capped," the AGM was told by a speaker who revealed that one request from the relative could not be satisfied.

"Unfortunately, we had to tell her 'sorry, but no video recordings of matches are available from back then'."

Shot in arm for gun sports

MORE and more Scots are taking up shooting, according to an Edinburgh gunsmith.

The growing popularity of clay pigeon shoots and the promotion of grouse and deer hunting as posh "sports" is behind the interest.

City gunsmith Gary MacPherson said new people were taking up shooting, with some owners spending 50,000 on guns.