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Two shy

A BBC Scotland reporter tells us she managed to read the name of the late North Korea leader Kim Jong Il this week without mispronouncing it.

So what, you might think, but she tells us of a fellow broadcaster who read the name out as Kim Jong the Second.

Mean streets

Reader Gerry Burke reports the sighting in a Helensburgh charity shop of a woman whose grasp of the purpose of such outlets is somewhat lacking.

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