Simon Howie: Last News

Three Perth and Kinross butchers and bakers proved to have the recipe for success once more after clinching a glut of accolades at the 22nd World Championship Scotch Pie Awards.

Award-winning butcher Simon Howie has been granted planning permission - subject to conditions - by Perth and Kinross Council (PKC) to erect a 104m high turbine at his Perthshire farm.

Perth and Kinross councillors have voted to close Perth Harbour as a commercial port.

With Burns Night just around the corner, many of us Scots will be looking to get in our yearly feast of haggis and other cultural delicacies to toast Rabbie Burns.

With Burns Night looming on the horizon, many of us Scots will be looking to get in our yearly feast of haggis and other cultural delicacies.

Burns Night, a top Scottish butcher company has gone one step further by sending theirs into space ahead of the big day.Simon Howie marked the special occasion by having their best-selling haggis reach the edge of space, soaring over 20 miles (107,293 feet) above the Earth.Special footage showed the firm's haggis reaching nearly four times the height of Everest, 3.5 times higher than a jumbo jet flies, before returning safely to Scotland. The team say the Original Simon Howie 454g Haggis took off from their HQ in Dunning before travelling over Stirling, Falkirk, Edinburgh, and the Pentland Hills before its safe landing in Lauder.They added that the visibility on the day was so good that at altitude, you can see at least as far as 250

court heard.Meat millionaire Simon Howie had been acting as a moneylender to cover up debts racked up by his financial director, David Cowper.But Cowper hadn’t told his now ex-wife Helen he was in serious debt and she had no idea he was secretly selling their home.It was only when she made plans to draw up her will that she discovered her husband’s plot with Howie.Cowper, 73, who has no previous convictions, has been warned he faces a prison term for forging his wife’s signature to settle a £193,338 debt to Howie.Marie Irvine, prosecuting, told Dundee Sheriff Court that Cowper and his wife had lived at a home in the city’s Blackness Avenue for 20 years.