Explosives find at dump
Council workers who spotted explosive detonators at a recycling centre have been praised for having “averted a potential tragedy”.
George Burgess and Jim Durkin found a box with about 60 detonators in it at the Keith Recycling Centre, Banffshire, as well as one containing a hand plunger that could have set them off.
The boxes were destroyed by a bomb disposal unit.
Mark Campbell’s Markell Real Estate Group occupies one of the world ’s gl itziest addresses in Manhattan’s Madison Avenue.
He has also claimed to have lived near New York’s famous Central Park for four years.
But we can reveal his firms – Markell Real Estate Group, Markell Group, and Markell Land and Property Developments – are all registered at a smal l f irm of financial experts below a block of flats in the English commuter town.
MKS Accountants’ neighbours include a barber’s, fish and chip shop, Costa Coffee and a Co- Op.
The list is a far cry from the glamorous designer boutiques and landmarks surrounding Campbell’s base in the Big Apple.
It was announced on Friday that negotiations between Falkirk and Campbell had ended. They had been locked in talks since August.
Campbell had been the preferred bidder by Falkirk’s current owners in July and said he was in pole position to take over the running of the Scottish League One club.
He promised to invest up to £ 10mi l l ion to develop the stadium and pay the £ 350,000 needed to take a controlling 62 per cent share in the club.
Fans’ group Back The Bairns had concerns over his business past. But he vowed to live in Scotland if he got ownership. He was made bankrupt in 2010 after running a pub. At the time he was described as unemployed and living in Bexley, Kent.
Campbel l failed in a bid to buy Sunderland AFC earlier this year. Last month we revealed he has been ordered to appear in a New York court over claims he sexually harassed a female employee. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, alleged he made