Pavilion releases footage as Sydney tributes stolen

THIS is the moment floral tributes to Scots music legend Sydney Devine (inset) were nicked from outside a Glasgow theatre.

Flowers left by fans in the doorway of the Pavilion were stolen over the weekend just hours after the Tiny Bubbles singer passed away.

The 81-year-old showman from Cleland, in Lanarkshire, passed at 3.30am on Saturday morning and the tribute was pinched at around 8.30pm that same day.

Outraged fans suspect they were stolen to give as Valentine’s Day gifts.

Posting on social media, bosses at the Renfield Street venue wrote: “This is the lowlife that saw fit to steal memorial flowers laid for Sydney Devine at the stage door. It is sad when there are people out there that will do this.”

The flowers are understood to have since been replaced for free by kind-hearted florist Marlene’s Flowers.

A POST Office worker drove over a man who a witness mistakenly thought was a discarded black bin bag.

William Hicks, 39, struck Brian Shields who was lying on the road having earlier fallen off his bike.

Mr Shields ended up in hospital for three weeks after suffering a serious back injury.

Hicks has been fined £715 after he admitted to careless driving in connection with the incident in Glasgow’s Fulton Street in Anniesland on February 6, 2019.

Hicks was on his way to work in his black Volvo at the time.

Prosecutor Mark Allan told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “He failed to see Mr Shields lying on the road and drove over him.

“Mr Shield’s body passed underneath Hicks’ car.

“He then stopped after the collision.”

Hicks alerted police before the victim – who had been drinking that day – was taken to hospital.

Mr Allan said: “He sustained a number of fractures on his vertebrae, bruised ribs and cuts and was released from hospital after 20 days.

The court was told Hicks, of the city’s Knightswood, was a first offender.

His lawyer Paul Nelson said: “The driver on the opposite side of the road suspected Mr Shields was a black bin bag, but it turned out to be a person.

“No-one thought that human being.”

Sheriff Alan MacKenzie also put eight points on Hicks’ licence.

He told him: “There was someone on the road and you drove over that person.

“I recognise that it was not obvious to you or anyone there that day that he was a human being.” it was a

THE work of creative writers is being celebrated with a “unique” visual arts project.

A five-and-a-half-metre-high billboard has been erected at Paisley’s Gilmour Street Station and is part of Renfrewshire Leisure’s Out of Place programme.

The specially commissioned work from Renfrewshire writers for the Talk of the Town project will be individually on display from February 22 to April 6.

The first piece to be featured on the billboard is a poem by Roddy Scott, called Sma’ Shot Reel, which talks about celebrating the end of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.