WE don't know what the demand is, but cheap-products emporium Poundland in Airdrie is selling tins of yacht varnish with a nifty picture of a ship's wheel on the front.

A reader who was pondering whether Airdrie was now the Riviera of Monklands was interrupted by a fellow customer who opined: "The only Marina I know around here works in the chip shop."

Hacked off

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