STUNT bike rider Eddie Kidd has suffered severe brain damage and could remain in a coma for the next 10 years, it emerged yesterday. Doctors have told his parents, Marjorie and Eddie snr, that the 37-year-old motor cycle ace has the most serious head injury possible after crashing a month ago.
His father said: ``It's comforting to know he's not going to die. But we've been told it could be up to 10 years before he wakes up.''
Road victim
POLICE named a woman who died in a fatal road accident on the M8 near Glasgow on Saturday as Mrs Carol Pattinson, 32, of Stoke-on-Trent. Her husband Dennis, 34, was taken to Monklands General Hospital and later transferred to Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, where his condition was described last night as serious but stable. One other person, who has not been named, is being treated at Monklands Hospital. Her condition was described as stable.
Sex charge
AN 18-year-old youth will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today charged in connection with an incident in which an 11-year-old schoolgirl was attacked and indecently assaulted in Wester Hailes Road, Wester Hailes, on Friday afternoon.
Search plea
POLICE searching for missing policeman's wife Margaret Jarvis and her two sons yesterday appealed for farmers, home owners, and firms to check outbuildings. Mrs Jarvis, 47, went missing from her home in Nounsley, near Chelmsford, Essex, with sons Russell, eight, and Christopher, five, six days ago.
Attack appeal
POLICE yesterday were continuing inquiries into the attempted murder of a 30-year-old man in Garthamlock, Glasgow. Mr Thomas Anderson, of Ware Road, Easterhouse, was found in Gartloch Road on Friday suffering from serious head wounds. It is not clear how he suffered the injuries. His condition was described as ``very serious''.
Lottery winners
FIVE winners shared an #8.1m National Lottery jackpot - thanks to Britain's luckiest number, 44. It was drawn for the sixth week running, beating odds of 800,000-1, organisers Camelot said. The five winning tickets amassed #1,626,411 each from the #8,132,055 jackpot. The winning numbers were 5,13,15,44,18,32, with bonus 41. For matching five numbers plus the bonus ball, 35 ticket-holders won #71,490; for five numbers, 1679 won #931; for four, 88,862 won #38; and for three, 1,482,834 won #10.
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