The row over MPs’ expenses intensified last night after Commons Speaker Michael Martin banned discussion of the subject in the House and Labour weighed in to Scotland’s first minister.

Alex Salmond shows that even though he doesn’t attend more than a handful of sittings at the House of Commons he is still capable of pillaging from the taxpayer £130,000 in so called legal expenses.

The figures showed he claimed…..

£18,591.34 incidental expenses

£13,988.98 for renting a flat

£84,664.94 for staff

£2,081.85 for staff travel

£2,221.84 in communication allowance

£1,480.80 for personal travel expenses

£293.50 in travel expenses for his wife

£1017.37 for stationary

£4,768.25 for postage

£1,255.46 for computing

Mr Salmond has made only 6 visits to the House of Commons since last May. Per night this works out to be £2,333 per night!! Labour MSP Jackie Baillie said it would have been cheaper for Mr Salmond to have stayed at the Ritz Hotel.

Ms Baillie, Labour’s Scottish parliamentary business spokeswoman, said: “It’s a bit rich for the SNP to denounce Westminster at every turn, only for Alex Salmond to claim every expense going.” It demonstrates at best a cavalier attitude to seeking value for public money. At worst, it’s shameless behaviour, as he barely attends the UK parliament.

The SNP seem to like to stir up racist hate between it’s supporters and the so called bad guys the English.

Alex Salmond tries to make out that he doesn’t approve of the comments left on the government website such as comments calling for the burning of the Union Jack, attacking the Royal Family, or our English neighbours. I am sure Alex Salmond is loving every minute of his single cell foot soldiers spreading racism and bigotry against the English.

As other parts of the UK namely Northern Ireland are trying to get away from the sectarianism and move forward with wanting peace, Alex Salmond seems to have made it his personal mission to destroy the UK to satisfy his own selfishness or lack of identity. You know what happened to the person that played with fireworks in their pocket, he got more than his fingers burn’t!

You can read the full story on The Press & Journal website.

It is criminal that the Labour Government can throw away £30 billion to bail out a failing bank whose management was guilty of flagrant banking malpractice. Isn’t it ironic that our Trade Unions which should be looking after the interests of British car workers have welcomed the Tata deal to buy up Jaguar and Land Rover for £1 billion. No redundancies for three years by the way.

The same anti-British leadership of the Trade Union Movement which welcomes into Britain as many cheap labour immigrants as they can will no doubt be delighted about all the cheap labour jobs created in Indian industry. Talk about the betrayal of the working classes!

The first political party in this country to copper-bottom guarantee that they will set Britain free from the “Global Market Economy” is the party that will reawaken the British electorate from the wicked spell cast over them by the LibLabCon Axis.

Press Officer

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The people of Aberdeen were yesterday urged to get in touch with a powerful watchdog to air their views on the way the under-fire city council is being run.

The call came amid tears of anger, as hundreds of locals gathered for a rally in protest at the local authority’s controversial decision to slash its budget by £27million.

Sports and leisure facilities and services for vulnerable people are all facing massive funding cuts, and a reduction in spending on education could see dozens of teachers lose their jobs.

The outcry at last month’s decision prompted the Accounts Commission of Scotland to take the unusual step of ordering a public hearing into the reasons for the city’s “precarious” financial state.

The move is the first of its kind for a Scottish city council, and will see council leaders and top officials grilled under oath in public, with the possibility of outside consultants being brought in to effectively run the city.

Aberdeen Labour MP Frank Doran yesterday urged the crowd of over 300 to tell the watchdog of their dissatisfaction with the council. “We want everybody who came to the meeting to make their views known to the Accounts Commission,” he said after the rally. “We don?t want councillors and officers trying to bamboozle everyone with figures. These councillors were elected to look after these people and have turned their backs on them.? The ex-lawyer is preparing to take legal action against the council over a perceived lack of consultation with the disabled groups affected.

Among those at the rally was Amelia Leys, 61, who lives with her Downs syndrome son Roger Cunningham 37, in Craigievar Crescent. She told of his distress at the closure of the Aye Can recycling project for disabled people. “He was sobbing his heart out on his bed. They’re not only losing their place of work, they’re losing their friends. Aberdeen?s known as a city in bloom, now it’s going to be a city in gloom”.

SNP depute council leader, Kevin Stewart, criticised Mr Doran for urging ordinary members of the public to contact the watchdog. “This hearing is dealing with matters between November 2006 and January 2007 and the report done then when the council’s finances were described as ‘precarious’,” he said. “The budget has set that right and Frank?s lot has not come up with an alternative.”

Referring to the Accounts Commission inquiry, he said: “I have absolutely nothing to fear by this at all.”
Although all political groups have welcomed the inquiry, all will privately fear what could emerge. The council was run by the Lib Dems and Tories before last May’s election, and Labour before 2003. The ruling coalition is now Lib Dem-SNP.

The Accounts Commission called the inquiry after considering a critical Audit Scotland review of the council’s performance between November 2006 and January 2007, which identified low staff morale and a culture opposed to change. Ken Dinwoodie, who worked at the council between 1996 and 2003 and was assistant director of human resources, recognised the picture painted in the report.

“If you look at the report there is an awful lot of things familiar to me,” he said. “The council has not pursued best value for money that vigorously or with any commitment, and has avoided taking tough decisions over the years.”

He pointed to a refurbishment of Bon Accord Baths costing tens of thousands of pounds, months before the decision to close it. “There?s a lack of planning,” said Mr Dinwoodie. “I think there will be a lot of pain come out of this, but hopefully a lot of good will come out of it as well.”

Tory councillor Jim Farquharson, a former human resources manager with a large oil company, said: “If this council was a business, the shareholders would have had a vote of no confidence in the whole board.”

The rally at Aberdeen Arts Centre had been dismissed by administration councillors as a Labour political stunt, but those affected insisted they were not playing politics. Hilda Meers, 84, of Gram-pian Senior Citizens Forum, said: “The people who have got the least income and most difficulties are supposed to pay. I intend to get myself down Union Street on April 5 for the cuts protest march – whatever the weather.”

Now we all know that the SNP welcome immigrants to Scotland with open arms but do they welcome allowing an immigrant from Somalia with the UK’s first diagnosed case of drug resistant TB!

The man who has the XDR-TB strain is reported to have come to the UK from Somalia. He is now in isolation at the Gartnavel General Hospital.

The “super strength” strain of the disease is extremely resistant to traditional antibiotics, and has to be treated with a cocktail of drugs. It is first time a patient has been diagnosed with XDR-TB in the UK, but health experts believe a case went undiagnosed in 2003.

Looks like another unwelcome guest has reached our shores in the form of a highly contagious disease. An interesting article can be found here

An immigration Mr Fixit has been charged with making false statements by police in Glasgow.

Muhammad Shoaib allegedly hid asylum seeker Shireen Tariq in Glasgow and sent a falsely stamped passport to Home Office officials showing she was in Pakistan.
Then he applied for asylum for her claiming she would not cost tax payers a penny-when it is claimed he knew in fact that she was claiming benefits in Scotstoun.Shoaib a former Glasgow city councillor and Justice of the peace received a passport for Tariq at his Shoaib Associates office in Pollokshields bearing a false passport stamp claiming entry to Pakistan. Hundreds of asylum cases Shoaib dealt with in the past six years are being re-examined.

Imagine a Britain connected by brand new high speed railway networks and tram systems which are low cost and ultra-efficient. Most goods are transported on the railways , trams and canals instead of on the roads. Cars are low pollution and powered by hybrid engines, and the roads far less busy. Local farms produce local foods that are then sold in local markets to local people.

All children have free meals at school including a breakfast and lunch and evening meal. Those who leave school at 18 will do National Service for a year either on the land as agricultural and harvest workers, in the military, in hospitals as hygiene orderlies responsible for cleaning hospitals or as carers in old peoples homes.

People work locally in newly opened factories and businesses, renewable energy plants and community farms. Workers will return to the land and villages and we will ensure priority for local homes are given back to local families. Local schools will teach the children our local customs and traditions and local hospitals will take care of the sick. Workers are able to work from home due to advanced internet computer networks and government taxation encourages home working.

Domestic production of most-commodities employs local people instead of employing workers in China and India whilst profiting the directors of private equity firms based in the United States. Farmers have a guaranteed home market for their products whilst the government ensures strict animal welfare, land use and land pollution controls. Intensive agriculture and factory farming is replaced with Integrated Farming, which is the best of sustainable farming techniques combined with high technology farming, products and tools.

Our control over our oceans is reaffirmed and we ensure that both our national fish stocks are protected from foreign exploitation and also over fishing.

The British army and navy guard the docks, ports and airports of the country instead of patrolling the streets of Iraq and hills of Afghanistan and a new National Border Police Force check all imports into the country on boats, trains, cars and planes rigorously ensuring they comply with the strict environmental import rules as regards foreign imports and also to ensure no illegal entrants enter the country.

Millions of illegal immigrants, illegal entrants, foreign criminals, bogus asylum seekers, economic migrants, ex-asylum seekers and visa overstayers present in the country will be deported by the Citizenship Courts we to set up who will adjudicate on the claims of those who assert they have a right to stay in the country.

The National Border Police Force will also take charge of a national population audit to ensure national security. New national insurance numbers and passports will be issued to all legal citizens whilst all those who are nor legal citizens will be denied all access to benefits. It will become a severe criminal offence to employ illegal immigrants or to assist in illegal entrants evading the law.

Low Risk Prisoners will be expected to work for their keep, and this will include labour on the new national infrastructure projects. They will be electronically tagged and housed in mobile facilities to assist in the building of new railways, canals, infrastructure projects etc. They will be paid for their work which will be used to assist them in their rehabilitation and they will also trained on the job to learn new skills to help them back into employment when they leave prison. Those that refuse to comply will suffer corporal punishment and harsh conditions including forced unpaid labour.

The death sentence will be applied for capital crimes and also will be applied retrospectively for all those convicted criminals such as Ian Huntley, Sidney Cooke and Peter Sutcliffe who can never leave prison for the protection of society, and also for all convicted Islamist terrorists and their supporters and funders. This will free up prison space and save money.

The Empire of the European Union must be democratically deconstructed from within, and in its stead a Europe of Nations, Europa, constructed that allows the nations of Europe to work alongside each other in defence of European culture, civilisation and security.

We are not hostage to the Liberal Consensus and reject entirely its bogus sentimentality for the criminal and the degenerate.

We are not afraid to punish the guilty and protect the victims. We are not afraid to coerce the reluctant and the profiteers, the apathetic and the corrupt if they refuse to do what is required to save our nation.

The sick, sentimental delusions of the liberal conscience have caused a social disaster in our country.

This disaster can only be fixed by actively fighting back against the delusions that spawned it.

We must reject all the lies of the Liberal Consensus and place the interests of the Natural Order first at times.

The Land and the People are one.

Lee Barnes

Primary school pupils could be taught about cross-dressing and transsexuals as part of proposed changes to the curriculum it was revealed this week.

Teachers would be expected to raise issues of gender stereotyping, emphasising respect for boys who wear make-up, dress in girls clothing or want to be known by a girls name.
The move is recommended in a report commissioned by Scottish ministers from an expert working group following concerns that up to 50% of gay, bisexual or transgender pupils are bullied at school.
Why do the liberal elite insist on introducing inappropriate sexual issues to children so early?
This is an over the top response to a small minority of children as only one in 1000 are estimated to be transgender. Schools should be doing all they can to stamp out bullying in any form it takes, this sort of nonsense is typical of what is wrong with our education system thousands of children leave primary schools every year unable to read and write, surely that is what teachers should be focusing on not wee Johnny and his imagined urge to wear make up.

It has been reported that Alex Salmond received personal emails from Donald Trump days before the planning commitee conviened to discuss his planning application for a golf complex in Aberdeenshire.

We all know what happened the ‘Scottish Executive’ over turned the local ruling and decided that they could not decide on such an important issue at local level. Secret emails released under the freedom of information act between Trump and Salmond clearly show what Trump was trying to achieve, and it worked. The first minister passed his comments onto Jim Mackinnon the governments top planning official which inturn gave the lifeline required to keep Trumps application afloat.

Is Alex Salmond looking to make sure he has a job to go to when the people of Scotland finally see him for what he is? Has he taken lessons for Tony Blair on how to ensure he has a rich future ahead of him…
We shall have to wait and see!

What Enoch Powell intended us to understand when he quoted from the Cumaean Sibyll’s utterance in Book 6 of the Aeneid was that to possess a homeland one had to be prepared to fight for it against hostile forces, hence, “Wars, horrid wars and the Tiber foaming with much blood”.

Powell was not inveighing against “moves towards racial equality” as your correspondent incorrectly suggests but reminding us that when differing peoples enter upon territorial contests serious troubles ensue. National culture and identity are the first casualties.

Today the indigenous British peoples of some 5000 years standing are being systematically colonised by radically different ethnic stocks. Already in such English cities as Birmingham, Leicester and Slough and in many London boroughs the indigenous inhabitants are in process of being outnumbered by Asian and African immigrants whose total fertility rates far exceed that of the British natives. The conclusion of this demographic process is inescapable and growing numbers of original Britons recognise that it is only a matter of decades before we will be a minority in our own land. In a recent broadcast on Al Jazeera TV Libya’s leader Col. Gaddafi stated. “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent in three decades.

Those of us who have no problem with the acceptance of miscegenation, Islamisation and minority status with its attendant loss of cultural and specific values will lose no sleep over the endless arrival of alien folk here. These people should however realise that history, ancient and modern, leaves us in no doubt about the outcome of invasions, demographic or otherwise. Hence Enoch Powell’s classical reminder of the shape of things to come.

Press Officer

This report in from Glasgow:

A very successful meeting was held in Glasgow last night (13th march) with a wide range of topics spoken about, the first and main issue being the ‘voice of change’.

Walter Hamilton spoke out against this group saying that “First of all we were told that this was a split in the party, IT IS NOT TRUE, these are people who have a disagreement with Nick Griffin not the BNP so why are they trying hard to destroy all the hard work being done by members, these people have destroyed Glasgow BNP which personally I think was their intention over the last 5 months”.

30 nationalists who had one thing on their mind and that was how to save our nation not trying to undermine people for what they thought best for the party attended the meeting.

The VOF newspaper used to be a 1000 order it is now a paltry 100 it was agreed at the meeting that the order would now be 500 to start with and hopefully rising every month.

There were about 2000 leaflets hand delivered monthly now there are none, every member in the hall said they would take between 20-30 newspapers to give to family etc and start spreading the word that Glasgow BNP is up and operational. (Look out for the big report on Scotland in Aprils issue).

Walter went on to say “There were another 10-15 members who did not attend last night because they thought it might be the voc meeting, I will say this for the first and last time there will NEVER be any voc meeting at this venue it is solely for BNP.  Please do not attend any meetings if your sole purpose is to destroy any hard work that is going to ensue”.

At the moment we have no current office holders for the Glasgow region if you would be interested in finding out more about an officials role please contact the Scottish Office Scotland@bnp.org.uk

I can still remember the name of my local policeman after 40 years as I do the strict teachers I had at school Mr Frost the battle of Britain pilot and Mrs Bateman the German Head mistress who had joined sides in putting the fear of god into us kids. I also remember the more easy going teachers like Mrs Moth who we greatly respected and Larry my first encounter with a liberal leftie, I can’t remember his surname as we were encouraged to call him by his Christian name only.

This teacher soon lost any respect and then lost any control over his class, what Mr Frost in his razor sharp suit, shoes you could lose your sight by staring at if the sun was out and his short back and sides haircut thought of this longhaired jean wearing bearded dude was not hard to fathom.

Skip forward a few decades and you arrive at the result of Larry and his ilk’s teaching methods, a society that demonises and fears its young folk, a whole generation with no idea of discipline and respect, full of the notion of freedom but with no thoughts of responsibilities. While undertaking youth work recently I witnessed first hand the results of liberalism.

I was helping run a youth club which had laid on a pool tournament and ping pong it had a small shop TV and was warm and welcoming. With in minuets of opening it was obvious why the club had previously closed as the youngsters ran riot as the young lady working with me appealed to them to talk about what they were doing and they in return laughed in her face I solved the problem by expressing my concerns in the manner of an old sat major and forcibly removing them, the youngsters were visibly shaken at being spoken to and treated in this manner.

Of course it was I that got pulled over the coals for not respecting their rights, the right to vandalise the youth club, their right to threaten staff, their right to be foul mouthed their right to do what ever they feel like! It is time for the return of the Mr Frosts and Mrs Bateman’s of yesteryear lets restore discipline to our classrooms and prepare our young folk for national service they have to be taught that they have responsibilities and the meaning of respect for themselves as well as others.

Over 15 years service in the ACF I have seen year on year the degeneration of standards in our youth. Many of course have been well bought up by loving parents who have made the effort to instil some discipline into their children only to be undermined by the liberal teaching establishment, please visit your local high school if you don’t believe me! The increase in attacks on teachers is well documented and now happening in primary schools, alarm bells not school bells should be ringing in the ears of the liberal elite.

Gary Raikes
BNP Scottish Secretary

It is not only mainland Scotland that suffers the ill effects of immigrant or migrant workers.

 A Russian woman who has lived and worked in the Outer Hebrides has set up a website giving practical advice to migrant workers.

Ludmila Macleod lives in Achmore and has recently established a consultancy business Europlan Britain after being involved voluntarily in assisting the growing number of Eastern Europeans adjust to their new environment in the Outer Hebrides.

The new website gives easy access to such things as employment rights, how to open a bank account, register a car and learn English.

It is estimated that there are 700 migrant workers in the Outer Hebrides at any one time, working in food processing, hospitality and construction. This might not sound a lot but the Outer Hebrides only has an estimated adult population of 26,000.

Ludmila said: “Many migrant workers have expressed difficulty in getting the help they need simply because they cannot explain their problems and do not understand what services are available to them. “They need better access to information and support with opening bank accounts, interpreting employment law, accessing local health services, legal entitlements and basic information on living and working in the UK.”

The Outer Hebrides suffers from a huge lack of local jobs for local people and can do without the influx of migrant workers from europe. There negative effects are being felt right across the islands from education to employment.

On saturday afternoon we encountered a pitiful sight of a woman in her sixties who was begging on the streets of an oil rich city.

We enquired as to her circumstances and it appears that she has been homeless for six months and was being forced to sleep rough close to the hospital facilities in Aberdeen. This ‘British’ woman has been on the housing list for 6 months as homeless and has been told another 6 months in hostels has to be endured before she can even be considered for a council house!

This is intolerable as far as we are concerned and have promised her that we will bring her case to the attention of the head of Aberdeen City Council to explain themselves over this woman’s plight and to pursue her case. We have had some disturbing reports of a family being removed from the Inverrurie Council Offices after applying for council housing after being made homeless from a private let (owners wanted house back and evicted them),

After filling in forms they asked how far they were on the housing list only to be told 6,000 odd, obviously very upset, they then asked if they were asylum seekers or european immigrants would they not be immediately be given housing, the councils answer was to call security and have them removed due to racist comments! We will follow up this story and let you know of the outcome in due course.

Key activists and supporters arrived at our city centre venue to hold our monthly paper sale, everybody was really upbeat about the event with a new sense of challenge abounding.

 After setting up our pitch we then proceeded to engage in our business which, on the whole was well received from the residents of Aberdeen.

We then encountered our first ‘Screamer’ who uttered the usual expletives towards us, who then went on their way. Some 15 minutes later, we were then visited by 2 Grampian Police officers. Enquiries were made by themselves as to our reasons of our presence in this area. We clearly stated that was a legal political event, which they seemed quite satisfied with, but they did ask us to untie our flags from council owned property, i.e. 2 trees, (see picture). Not wanting to compromise our good relationship with the Grampian Police force we complied and just held our flags in their poles.

Some time later the same officers returned to inspect our literature, papers and magazines that were on offer. which we duly gave them access to, they then proceeded to push a bit further and eventually they admitted that their chief superintendent hade given them instructions to find out all they could, They requested the organisers details who arranged the event.The officers came across rather pushy, but doesn’t that remind you of another section of our community?

The rest of the morning went really well with lots more of enquiries and papers distributed, until a downpour of rain that even BNP Scotland could not contain and were forced to the sidelines for a period of time to regroup and wait for a break in the storm, which never came.

Roy and Elise would like to thank Mike S, John S, John C and Roy B for their help in saturdays activities and enduring the terrible conditions. The feeling in the North East of Scotland is really upbeat at the moment and we are all relishing our future events that we have planned.

As part of the ‘White’ season screened on BBC2 they have decided to broadcast a program studying Enoch Powells famous speech in April 1968.

I was born almost one year after his famous speech, aptly named ‘Rivers of Blood’. You could say that as I have been brought up with the presence of immigrants that I should not hate them, as I have been brought up in this ‘multi cultural’ society that has been created by the governments of this country. You would be quite correct as I do not hate them or wish them dead. What I do want is for my brothers and sisters of the UK to stand shoulder to shoulder and be proud of what makes us British and to stop the decline in our culture that is being forced upon us by mass immigration.

When I look back from when I was a child it’s clear to see that our standards and our ‘British’ way of life have all but disappeared in the modern world that exists in the 21st Century. I can remember at school the number of ethnic children and their names for which they numbered less than ten in a school of approx 500 kids. How this has changed, now you are more likely to find that this is totally reversed in some parts of the UK and the ‘white kid’ numbers just a handful.

Where has the traditional school assembly gone? When I was at school it was based around quotations from the bible. Christians, Catholics, Jews sat next to each other without any racist hate. It was the ‘Ethnic Minority’ that decided to stay outside of the school hall and play the racist card of why they should not be present at the school assembly.

Enough of my personal experience as a child and lets look at how Enoch was right all those years ago but the words he used were deemed as being to harsh for the time they were spoken. They are not so harsh now…

Enoch was contacted by constituents of Wolverhampton wishing to air their concerns on local issues from employment to environmental problems. In the space of 40 years these issues still exist but now are even greater and are not just confined to middle England but now extend to every corner of the UK.

Ex service men complained at the poor housing they had to live in while the ‘ethnic minority’ lived in plush new housing estates or new blocks of flats. Elderly folk complained how they were the only ‘white’ person in the street and how the coloureds made them feel uneasy. The working class complained about how their wages were being driven down by cheap imported labour. Nothing has changed has it? It has got steadily worse and still the indigenous white person has to struggle, while massive handouts are given to immigrants for jobs that do not exist… The latest one I recall is the grant for immigrants to become licensed ‘Hackney Cab’ drivers. Whites need not apply even if they are born and bred Londoners!

Enoch Powell said that 50,000 immigrants coming to our shores were far too many in 1968. The figure is now 300,000 legal immigrants entering the UK! Let?s not forget the illegal immigrants, asylum seekers or migrant workers forced upon us by the EU from Eastern Europe.

Due to the number of immigrants all settling in the same area they will not integrate into ‘British Society’ and will lead to racial tension. Over the years there have been a number of riots in these ‘Ethnic Ghettos’ that immigrants themselves have created. They have all been to do with how they feel victimised by our ‘British’ laws. The most famous riots in London are the Brixton, Broadwater Farm, and Windsor. Others include Bradford, Oldham, and Toxteth. All of these areas to a greater or lesser extent are now ‘no go areas’ for our police forces and or white people.

Did our fore fathers sacrifice their lives to secure our country for it to be over run by immigrants? Or for it to be turned into a multi cultural society where the indigenous white folk are made to feel like they are immigrants? No, they fought to keep it British and not turned into part of the 3rd Reich Empire! It has now reached the ‘now or never’ time for us indigenous people of our land to make a stand and save our country. Forget about the petty squabbles that are happening between the home nations. The petty fighting between Scotland & England has been going on for century’s, forget it, now before it’s to late! If not the real enemy, immigration and a Multi Cultural Britain, driven by a ‘Politically Correct’ government will succeed. Our heritage, culture, what makes us British, will be lost forever.

Take action, not tomorrow, not next year, NOW! if not for yourself do it for your children just like your grand parents so unselfishly did for you.

MORE than 100 valuable koi carp have been stolen from a leading Galloway tourist attraction.
The fish, valued at around £2,000, have been taken from a pond at the world-famous Logan Botanical Gardens, near Port Logan.Police and gardens staff have been left baffled by the theft of the fish, which were a big attraction for visitors.

Logan Gardens curator Richard Baines said: “We are not exactly sure when the theft took place, as the fish are always right down at the bottom of the pond at this time of the year, so it was difficult to see them. We only noticed they were missing when we came to clear out the pond. I don’t even know how this could have happpened as the place is locked up and made secure at night. This is the first time in 30 years that something like this has happened here and we are all very disappointed, because the fish are such an attraction for the people who visit the gardens. Many of the fish have become particular favourites with our regular visitors because of their distinctive markings. Quite a few were donated when they grew too big for their ponds at people’s homes. So, if anyone out there has fish that are needing to be rehomed because they have grown too big, we would be delighted to hear from them.”

A police spokesperson confirmed this week: “Stranraer police are currently investigating the theft of more than 100 koi carp from the Logan Botanic Gardens, Port Logan.”The theft is thought to have occurred since the beginning of December 2007. The fish, some as large as six to eight pounds, are a mix of colours, such as red, pink, white, blue and green.”Early indications would suggest that the fish have been stolen, as opposed having been removed by any predator. It is understood that many of the fish in the pond had been donated to the gardens by members of the public. Koi carp have been known to live for more than 200 years – but the average lifespan is 25-30 years.”

Police are appealing to anyone with any information on this crime to get in touch through 0845 600 5701, or anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.