Comment

The Diary

  • 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.

Tom Shields On...

  • 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.

View

Letters

To write to The Herald's editor, either email letters@theherald.co.uk or address your correspondence to The Editor, The Herald, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3PR.

Ken Smith at Large

Obituaries