Talk of the Town: Pair sink their teeth into cannibal role

Steve Christopher, 26, and Joe Hannan, 19, came up with the idea as a "method acting" approach to their jobs as actors at the Edinburgh Dungeon.

From next month they will portray the legendary 15th-century Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean in a new feature based on the gruesome legend.

Steve, a drama graduate from Edinburgh, said he was prepared for the challenge after once spending three months in the Borneo jungle.

In their cave the friends will have no mod cons and have to wash in the Firth of Forth to get the authentic feel of being a cave dweller.

They will have only basic food provisions and will spend their days mapping out the area, making furniture from driftwood and carrying out various "survival tasks".

Now that's job dedication.

Jamming their surveys down our throats again

LATEST in the "We're totally impartial, honest Guv" survey stakes is a study which reveals that Edinburgh is fifth in the top ten of UK towns and cities where people admit to skipping breakfast.

The Capital, where 24 per cent of people confess to going without their morning meal, comes just below Glasgow, in forth place.

The survey was carried out by a well-known brand of marmalade.

Wonder what they think we should be having for breakfast.

Going down a Storm

HE may not have won the X Factor, but former finalist Storm Lee is doing quite nicely it seems.

Storm, who was brought up in the city before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue his singing dream, is now busy working as a backing singer in hit musical Glee and has been recording vocals for Ricky Martin's new album.

Getting everyone in a flap

IT'S not just big-hearted bobbies that have been looking after the welfare of swans who have flown the coup from Inverleith Park.

Members of the public have been at it as well.

One swan was ushered away from the traffic-laden Queensferry Road by a resident at rush hour yesterday while another was spotted being coaxed back to the park with a baguette.