Morning Briefing: Second Legionnaires" disease death in city Published on Friday 15 June 2012 09:03 A DOG walker plunged 20ft to his death from a narrow cliff edge yesterday in a tragic incident witnessed by his wife. The man, named locally as Robert Gordon Harkess, fell while out for a morning walk with his wife, Mabel, and the family spaniel. Mr Harkess, 69, landed on rocks at Whitberry Point, near Dunbar, East Lothian, at around 8am. It took nearly three hours to rescue the stricken pensioner, with two helicopters, police, ambulance and coastguards struggling to reach him in the steep, wooded area. He was finally winched up to an RAF Sea King at about 10:40am and flown to hospital in Edinburgh, but doctors were unable to save him. He is understood to have suffered major head injuries. His wife, who lived with her husband in nearby East Linton, is also believed to have been taken to the same hospital to receive treatment for shock. TWELVE children have been "safeguarded" and five people arrested by Lothian and Borders Police as part of a nationwide operation to target suspected internet paedophiles. Three men, two aged 35 and one aged 29, were charged in connection with indecent images. A 43-year-old from north Edinburgh was charged with communicating indecently with a child aged between 13 and 15, and a 22-year-old from Livingston was detained and questioned before being released. Operation Tharsley saw 78 people arrested across the UK. A DISGRACED detective who was under investigation after she illegally read police files has quit - but only after securing a full pension. Chief inspector Allison Strachan, 50, has also faced allegations that she and her lover, a married soldier, had sex with strangers they met on a swingers" website. She has been suspended from Lothian and Borders Police for 20 months on full pay as the criminal case against her and the inquiry into her conduct progressed. But she will now avoid internal disciplinary action or any sanctions after she decided to retire having notched up 25 years" service. Strachan, who lives in Craiglockhart, was fined £400 by Edinburgh Sheriff Court in March after a probe found that she had breached the Data Protection Act by looking up prohibited information on the official police database. She pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining classified information about individuals at various police stations in the force area. The Scottish Police Federation's pensions calculator indicated that Strachan, who it is believed was paid around £55,000 a year, is entitled to a lump sum of more than £77,000, and then an income of £19,250 a year. FRENCH energy company EDF, which owns Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian, has won a £600 million electricity deal from the Scottish Government. EDF beat Scottish Power and Scottish & Southern Energy to win the three-year contract to supply almost every school, hospital and council building in the country. The contract had previously been held jointly by the other two companies. The move prompted criticism that the SNP was going against its policy of opposing nuclear power. EDINBURGH-BASED Cairn Energy has awarded shares worth £6 million to members of its senior management team - four weeks after a shareholder revolt on executive pay. Chief executive Simon Thomson, who succeeded Sir Bill Gammell last July, will receive £1.5 million worth of shares under the deal. At the firm's annual general meeting last month, there was a 67 per cent vote against the directors" remuneration report. A spokesman defended the latest shares award, saying it was a standard management incentive based on performance. He said: "The recipients do not receive the shares unless the company performance criteria have been met."