Tears of Bloodgate doctor - Aug 25 2010

The match-day rugby doctor at the centre of the 'Bloodgate' scandal wept as she said she will "always have a guilty conscience" about what she had done. Dr Wendy Chapman, 49, cut the lip of Harlequins winger Tom Williams to make a fake injury with a blood capsule appear real during the Heinekan cup quarter-final against Irish side Leinster in April last year. Williams' substitution made way for specialist goal kicker Nick Evans to be brought back on in the final minutes with Quins trailing 6-5. They went on to lose the match, and the scandal led to a £259,000 fine for the club, a three year ban for director of rugby Dean Richards and a four month ban for Williams following a disciplinary hearing. Dr Chapman fought back tears as she told a medical tribunal that she was horrified when she realised she had been "duped" by the apparent injury to Williams, 25, but had succumbed to his pressure to cut his lip to make his substitution appear legitimate. he case featured in the Daily Express and other newspapers after Cavendish Press cover the court case.

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Guard of dishonour - Aug 21 2010

A woman was forced to to run a ''guard of dishonour'' outside a courthouse after she was caught romping with a man on a war memorial. Angry war veterans formed the gauntlet to slow handclap Wendy Lewis as she arrived to face JPs for sentencing for her drunken 5am sexual liaison. The 32-year old had been arrested after urinating next to a row of poppies at the plaque to fallen soldiers at the cenotaph in Blackpool, Lancs before performing oral sex on a man with ''straggly hair.'' When news of her arrest and court appearance before Blackpool magistrates leaked out a dozen veterans camped outside the court entrance to greet her. Shame faced Lewis eventually turned up with her head covered in a hooded fleece but 15 minutes later was so embarassed about her antics she did a runner from the court building. She was earlier convicted of outraging public decency. The story featured in the Sun and other newspapers after Cavendish Press covered the court case.

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We foiled developers - Aug 25 2010

A close knit neighbourhood has staged a £122,000 whipround - to keep their favourite beauty spot out of the hands of housing developers. Locals clubbed together to buy a 13 acre field near their homes when they discovered it was up for auction - and feared property bosses would snap it up to build houses or a supermarket on it. Cow Field in Whaley Bridge, in High Peak, Derbyshire has been popular with dog walkers and kite flyers alike and has been used by locals for over 60 years. But it has been the subject of interest from developers for up to 40 years and in 1995 a planning application for over 30 homes was narrowly defeated. The 14 string group of residents stumped up their own money and won the bid when the land went under the hammer at Frank Marshalls auctioneers in Knutsford, Cheshire. Shares of the field are now being entered on the deeds of all 14 people's homes. The story featured in the Daily Express and other newspapers after the residents spoke to Cavendish Press.  

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Lawrence of Arabia missions - Aug 25 2010

A retired lecturer has uncovered an amazing diary of previously unpublished and intimate details of secret missions led almost 100 years ago by Lawrence of Arabia. James Hynes, 80,  had been in contact with his cousin when she told him of a type written journal of her father's experiences with hero British army officer Lt Col TE Lawrence during World War One. The diary features stories of espionage and bombing campaigns known as ''X Flights'' led by Lawrence across the former Ottoman empire. They even included details of how one of Lawrence's aristocratic men burnt breakfast for the squadron after being ordered to personally cook an English fry up  in the scorching Turkish desert. Lawrence had led the '''X flight'' sorties in 1918 against the Turks accompanied by a handpicked team of colleagues which included the sixth Earl of Winterton who was then a sitting MP. The secret missions helped Lawrence capture Damascus in 1918 where he became instrumental in setting up an Arab government. But the flights were so sensitive the RAF were said to have known nothing of them and they remained a secret - eluding depiction in the 1962 Hollywood movie Lawrence of Arabia starring actor Peter O'Toole. Now details of the flights have emerged in diaries complied by an aircraft mechanic George Hynes who was one of Lawrence's closest aides during the Arab revolts. The stor featured in the Daily Express and other newspapers after James spoke to Cavendish Press.

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Ex-soldier snapped at yobs - August 18 2010

Former soldier John Cawley was hauled in court after he snapped and confronted a yob gang with a knife after they made his life a misery. And he won the sympathy of a judge who said his plight was ''intolerable'' and that he appreciated his ''sense of injustice that nothing is being done.'' Cawley, a father of two had endured five years of abuse during which youths broke his fence, damaging his stone posts on the driveway, dangling from trees in his back garden, hitting his brickwork with hammers and kicking a football at his walls and windows. Cawley - who had never been in trouble with police before eventually grabbed a knife and was seen chasing a group of teenager who had been kicking a football against his wall, saying ''If I get hold of you I'll kill you.'' It emerged one of the yobs had been in trouble with police since he was 12 but had been allowed out of school early on a Friday to attend a Blackburn Rovers training session as part of a scheme to keep youngsters out of trouble. The story featured in the Daily Express and other newspapers after Cawley spoke to Cavendish Press.

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