Just when you think Dame Helen Mirren could be held in no higher esteem does she not appear on a Soho street dressed as the Queen to tell a noisy band to pipe down.
With cake being such an expensive commodity these days, a Government Minister has come up with a new dietary regime for the revolting poor: Let them eat leftovers.
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TODAY'S topic is the inadvisability of conducting political campaigns in licensed premises.
IN a foretaste of future aviation, a Jetstream aircraft last month became the first to fly "unmanned" across UK airspace.
The Better Together campaign is in the process of asking 500 important questions in the days that remain before the independence vote.
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Entirely on my own behalf, I have been in the veldt sampling Afrikaans food.
Just when you think Dame Helen Mirren could be held in no higher esteem does she not appear on a Soho street dressed as the Queen to tell a noisy band to pipe down.
The UK Independence Party and not the Scottish National Party may be the most significant factor for a Yes victory in the 2014 referendum.
THEY are trying to make us play the Name Game again.
With cake being such an expensive commodity these days, a Government Minister has come up with a new dietary regime for the revolting poor: Let them eat leftovers.
There seems to be controversy over arrangements for next year's celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.
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