NEWS that people are spending less money on home improvements reminds us of the Glasgow council official visiting a house in Blackhill, where he noted that the tenant had knocked through archways in all the rooms so that you could travel from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom and back round to the living room.
IT'S not often someone from Motherwell makes the FA Cup Final, but Motherwell fan Monica McGhee will be on the Wembley pitch tomorrow leading the fans in singing the National Anthem with her quartet Amore.
MOTHERWELL'S Liverpudlian striker Michael Higdon was arrested for an alleged assault in a Glasgow nightclub hours after being named Scotland's Player of the Year.
A BEARSDEN reader tempted out by the sun to do the first gardening of the year tells us that last summer his granddaughter raced in to tell him that there were a large number of snails on the garden path.
AUTHOR Alasdair Smith's debut crime novel The Unfaithful Seven has episodes from Glasgow pubs – including one he witnessed himself in one of the city's more challenging east end venues.
FORMER Rangers star Willie Henderson told Epilepsy Scotland's charity dinner in Glasgow last week that when Billy McNeill was Celtic manager he told feisty midfielder Peter Grant before a crucial Old Firm game to go out and kick lumps out of opponent Graeme Souness.
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NEWS that people are spending less money on home improvements reminds us of the Glasgow council official visiting a house in Blackhill, where he noted that the tenant had knocked through archways in all the rooms so that you could travel from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom and back round to the living room.
A DUNBARTONSHIRE reader tells us he went for a haircut last week when there was a discount for pensioners.
BONKERS weather in Glasgow yesterday.
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ONE-THIRD of men in a recent survey admitted to having a mid-life crisis, many of whom splashed out on sports cars or motorbikes.
IT'S not often someone from Motherwell makes the FA Cup Final, but Motherwell fan Monica McGhee will be on the Wembley pitch tomorrow leading the fans in singing the National Anthem with her quartet Amore.
POLITICAL activist and comedian Mark Thomas was in Glasgow this week for the Great May Day Cabaret he was performing in at Glasgow's Oran Mor.
MOTHERWELL'S Liverpudlian striker Michael Higdon was arrested for an alleged assault in a Glasgow nightclub hours after being named Scotland's Player of the Year.
RETIREMENT can mean quite a life change for many people.
A BEARSDEN reader tempted out by the sun to do the first gardening of the year tells us that last summer his granddaughter raced in to tell him that there were a large number of snails on the garden path.
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AUTHOR Alasdair Smith's debut crime novel The Unfaithful Seven has episodes from Glasgow pubs – including one he witnessed himself in one of the city's more challenging east end venues.
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CLYDE shipyard worker Bob Starrett has published a collection of stories and cartoons about the yards in his book The Way I See It.
FORMER Rangers star Willie Henderson told Epilepsy Scotland's charity dinner in Glasgow last week that when Billy McNeill was Celtic manager he told feisty midfielder Peter Grant before a crucial Old Firm game to go out and kick lumps out of opponent Graeme Souness.
A SMALL quantity of drugs was found by police on board the tour bus of teenage pop star Justin Bieber.
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