There's a feud over a book of poetry. It's gone to alarming heights.
From the piece in the Daily Record...
A BITTER feud between two brothers over a book of Burns poems led to threats of death, arson and acid attacks.
Andrew Lang, 42, became enraged when his older brother Thomas claimed the rare first edition when their father died.
He insisted the book, worth £2000, had been given to him by their dad, Thomas snr.
The feud simmered for years - until a drunk Lang lost the plot and made a series of threatening phone calls to his brother's home in Maidens, near Girvan, Ayrshire.
He spent a month in custody and has now been given probation and community service.
In other Burns news, less acidic, the Guardian has a slideshow of a new Robert Burns museum, here.
Then there's the ol' Burns flash mob:
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