GLASGOWwas in the news yesterday after the election of new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, after reports that he attended Glasgow Caledonian university.
MIKE Ritchie was visiting a chemist's in the south side of when he noticed two scrapers on the counter, and he wondered what ailment would require the use of such painful-looking implements.
OUR tale of the rugby player being compared to the great Willie John McBride – "compared to Willie John McBride you're rubbish" –reminds Robin Gilmour of playing in goal many years ago for the Western Hockey Club.
JIM Mason reads on the menu at the Das Gift bar in Berlin's dingy Neukoln area "Glasgow-style roll and square sausage served with tomato or brown sauce".
THE Labour Party has been forced to carry out a damage limitation exercise after the backlash over the plan by Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to cut state allowances for those who live cheaply up north.
PETER Kearney, pictured, director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, continues to make work for himself by taking (and raising) the temperature of sectarian attitudes in Scotland.
Andrew Tyrie, the impressive and independently minded Conservative who chaired the UK Government's Banking Commission, always warned that he would be considering what he called "the orange jump suit question".
IN the great 1970s satirical film The Candidate, Robert Redford's idealistic and unworldly character is groomed by a team of political spindoctors into a slick but bland electoral dynamo.
Just as the Middle East appeared to be heading for conflict, following the Syrian deadlock and the nuclear standoff between Iran and the US, suddenly there is a chink of light.
One does not have to be gifted at reading runes to realise Barack Obama and David Cameron are actively orchestrating...
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FOR camera-wielding tourists expecting the live equivalent of toy soldiers in scarlet tunics and bearskin helmets, this would have been a disappointment.
THEY are sometimes dubbed the cathedrals of the masses, although those of a religious persuasion would no doubt argue that cathedrals are still in fact the cathedrals of the masses.
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FORMER Walker Cup golf captain Colin Dalgleish has just flown back to Glasgow from the US Open at Merion.
PHIL Wilson met a group walking the West Highland Way in aid of Erskine Hospital.
GLASGOWwas in the news yesterday after the election of new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, after reports that he attended Glasgow Caledonian university.
MIKE Ritchie was visiting a chemist's in the south side of when he noticed two scrapers on the counter, and he wondered what ailment would require the use of such painful-looking implements.
OUR tale of the rugby player being compared to the great Willie John McBride – "compared to Willie John McBride you're rubbish" –reminds Robin Gilmour of playing in goal many years ago for the Western Hockey Club.
JIM Mason reads on the menu at the Das Gift bar in Berlin's dingy Neukoln area "Glasgow-style roll and square sausage served with tomato or brown sauce".
GLASWEGIANS are still talking about what a great weekend it was weather-wise.
FINALLY, some great weather at the weekend.
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YOU will have seen the shock news that an academic study shows Lego faces are getting angrier.
FAR down a list of suggestions as to how Glasgow's buses might be improved would be the bright idea: let's change the numbers.
THE Labour Party has been forced to carry out a damage limitation exercise after the backlash over the plan by Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to cut state allowances for those who live cheaply up north.
I USUALLY get lost when driving in foreign places.
PETER Kearney, pictured, director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, continues to make work for himself by taking (and raising) the temperature of sectarian attitudes in Scotland.
KATHERINE Jenkins, has been dropped by her record company for being a diva, spending (allegedly) £1500 a day on hair and make-up.
A sheriff's ruling that it is not a crime to sing about the IRA leaves the Offensive Behaviour at Football law in a state of confusion.
You never know the minute with the stock exchange.
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Andrew Tyrie, the impressive and independently minded Conservative who chaired the UK Government's Banking Commission, always warned that he would be considering what he called "the orange jump suit question".
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IN the great 1970s satirical film The Candidate, Robert Redford's idealistic and unworldly character is groomed by a team of political spindoctors into a slick but bland electoral dynamo.
Just as the Middle East appeared to be heading for conflict, following the Syrian deadlock and the nuclear standoff between Iran and the US, suddenly there is a chink of light.
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