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Spiralling costs

THE Oscar ceremony took place last night, which reminds us of the senior citizen who was in Groucho's independent music store in Dundee buying a DVD of the Oscar-nominated 1940s suspense movie The Spiral Staircase.

"The price has gone up," he told the assistant, who asked what he meant.

"It was only one 'n' six when I saw it in the cinema," the old fella replied.

Net gain?

AS the debate over Scottish independence rumbles on, a reader points us to the website of an English newspaper which had been telling its readers what independence would mean for the rest of Britain. One reader had added in the comments section: "Does that mean we'll no longer have to support Andy Murray at Wimbledon?"

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