Wining on

YOU just can’t get the staff these days.

A regular attender of Wetherspoons pubs has written to the company to express his disappointment that one of its bartenders had not heard of a whisky mac.

In a letter published in the mighty Wetherspoon News, the pub-goer explains that the drink is a mix of whisky with an alcoholic ginger wine, only to be told: “I can give you a ginger wine.”

Chairman Tim Martin admitted in his response that knowledge of the classic cocktail was in short supply among staff at the pub company.

What will be next to disappear, we wonder, Babycham?

Football connections

THERE was no shortage of football connections when Renfrewshire-based construction firm The JR Group appointed three new directors to its board.

One of the top spots has been taken up by Scottish football referee Andrew Dallas, son of former whistler Hugh, who has become projects director at the firm.

Then there is Craig Whyte, the group’s new commercial director whom it should be noted is not the controversial former owner of Rangers.

One suspects a fair bit of banter flies around the office before and after match days.