SAD to see sports presenter Jim Delahunt stepping down from Radio Clyde after a drink driving conviction.

We remember some time ago when Jim was still presenting fitba on the telly going to his daughter's school in Newton Mearns to talk about his job. He chatted about having to wear make-up on screen and how he had to remember to take it off before going to the supermarket on the way home. He then jokingly asked the kids how many of their dads wore make-up and surprisingly half the kids in the nursery put their hands up.

We don't know if they misunderstood or if it says something about Newton Mearns.

AN anxious teenager was telling her mum in Bearsden last night: "Jeremy Clarkson sacked, Zayn Malik leaving One Direction. It was predicted that last week's eclipse would bring about the end of the world. Maybe not so wrong then."

Incidentally, Irish bookies Paddy Power have radio presenter Chris Evans as evens favourite to become the new Top Gear presenter. One Direction's Zayn Malik is 100/1.

YES, we all like to find a local angle when covering news stories. Perhaps trying just a wee bit too hard was the Cheddar Valley Gazette. Its headline this week was "Jeremy Clarkson fired just two years after Top Gear films in Cheddar Gorge".

WATCHING tell with auld yins continued. says John O'Neill: "Gran Anne O'Neill from Killearn was explaining to her grandson that when she was a wee girl

she did not watch children's programmes on TV as they did not have one. Young Stewart told her, 'Gran you should have watched it on your phone'."

LYNX is that throat-catching smelly deodorant much favoured by teenage boys. Writer Sanjeev Kohli claimed yesterday: "Scotland is the only country where Lynx are launching their lovely meaty Lynx Sausages range." Can actually imagine that.

A GLASGOW reader on the bus into town tells us a teenage boy sitting in front of him actually sounded convincing when he told his pal: "I can look after myself - no doubt about it. I can make tea and toast, the lot."

FOSTER Evans tells us Scots visitors to Sweden might get a bit confused as the Swedish Academy has agreed to introduce a gender-neutral pronoun into the language as an alternative to "han" which means he and "hon" which is she. The new neutral pronoun however will be "hen" which has been well used in Scotland for years.

A READER phones to ask: "Has anyone else noticed the irony in being charged two pounds for simply taking money out of some ATMs while being warned to hide my PIN to avoid being robbed?"

A COLLEAGUE wanders over to interrupt us with: "Convincing the family dog that I really did throw his ball is the closest I have ever got to being a conjuror."