WE'RE sure she was joking, but we hear that Councillor Janice Annal in Orkney, at the ceremonial cutting of the first sod this week at the site of the new Kirkwall Grammar School, spoke of the importance of education, before including in her speech: "When Sir Francis Drake was getting ready to fight in the Battle of Trafalgar ..."
WE'RE sure she was joking, but we hear that Councillor Janice Annal in Orkney, at the ceremonial cutting of the first sod this week at the site of the new Kirkwall Grammar School, spoke of the importance of education, before including in her speech: \"When Sir Francis Drake was getting ready to fight in the Battle of Trafalgar ...\"
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Rising star
KIND of sad the news that ITV no longer wants to buy Taggart from Scottish Television, even although most of us stopped watching years ago. We all know that Taggart never said: “There’s been a murder,” but curiously, Inspector Morse did in one of his episodes. Anyway, for some reason the news reminds us of when the splendid Alex Norton, who plays Insepctor Matt Burke in Taggart, was attending a political rally many moons ago and a wee wummin trying to flog the Communist Party’s newspaper was bellowing: “Morning Star!”
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All in the past
WE'RE sure she was joking, but we hear that Councillor Janice Annal in Orkney, at the ceremonial cutting of the first sod this week at the site of the new Kirkwall Grammar School, spoke of the importance of education, before including in her speech: "When Sir Francis Drake was getting ready to fight in the Battle of Trafalgar ..."
Rising star
KIND of sad the news that ITV no longer wants to buy Taggart from Scottish Television, even although most of us stopped watching years ago. We all know that Taggart never said: “There’s been a murder,” but curiously, Inspector Morse did in one of his episodes. Anyway, for some reason the news reminds us of when the splendid Alex Norton, who plays Insepctor Matt Burke in Taggart, was attending a political rally many moons ago and a wee wummin trying to flog the Communist Party’s newspaper was bellowing: “Morning Star!”
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