Investigating Burke & Hare
ACTOR David Hayman delved into the murky world of Burke and Hare for his latest project - and revealed his family have their own sinister secret.

The Glasgow star has made a documentary about the Edinburgh villains who killed innocent victims and sold their corpses.

But Hayman admitted his first experience of violent death was much closer to home.

When he was a child, his grandfather Walter died during a beating from his grandmother Ruby. But the scandal was covered up by the family.

Banda Islands
The Banda Islands were one of two islands groups comprising the fabled ‘Spice Islands’ of the East Indies. Banda was the original and only source of the once precious spices, nutmeg and mace, whose trade had a significant impact on global history up to the 19th century, but particularly in the 15th-19th centuries. It was the ‘Spice Islands’ that Christopher Columbus was seeking when, under the sponsorship of the King and Queen of Spain, he sailed westward across the Atlantic. He discovered that his westward rout to the Spice Islands was blocked by the Americas. It remained for the Portuguese to be the first European explorers to reach Banda after the long route around Africa and eastward across the Indian Ocean.

The mission of the VC-25 aircraft -- Air Force One -- is to provide air transport for the president of the United States.

The presidential air transport fleet consists of two specially configured Boeing 747-200B's -- tail numbers 28000 and 29000 -- with the Air Force designation VC-25. When the president is aboard either aircraft, or any Air Force aircraft, the radio call sign is "Air Force One."