ROBOT BUS CAN CARRY UP TO 42 PASSENGERS

The buses – which will be operated by Stagecoach East Scotland – will provide a service capable of carrying up to 42 passengers the 14 miles across the bridge, with capacity for up to 10,000 passengers a week. The buses will operate to Level 4 standard which means that a driver will remain on board during any journey in line with UK regulations.

WORLD PREMATURITY DAY

Harris Maclean is shaping up to be a famous chef like dad Gary – despite his early and dramatic arrival in the world 11 weeks early. The Maclean clan from Glasgow – dad Gary, mum Sharon and children Cameron, Ewan, Laura, Finlay and Harris – will make an emotional trip this Sunday to the Princess Royal Maternity to give thanks and celebrate World Prematurity Day with lots of other very grateful families.

CHRISTMAS BOOK ABOUT FISHING ON LOCH LOMOND

This book is a narrative of game fishing in Scotland’s world famous loch and its associated rivers Leven, Endrick and Fruin. The author has fished these waters for 40 years and considers this to have been one of his life’s great privileges. The book gives insight to the loch’s remarkable angling history for the last century, and chronicles stories of its most famous anglers with accounts of catches made during the halcyon days on the vast water which is Lomond.

WHERE NOW FOR THE DUP AND BREXIT?

There has been a complete breakdown in relations between the DUP and the prime minister. No unionist party in Northern Ireland supports Johnson’s deal and no wing of the Conservative party advocates changing the deal for unionism’s benefit. If Johnson wins a majority, he will ram his Brexit through. If he needs the DUP’s help to get into office then everyone will be back to where they are now, which is not where anyone wants to be.

THE IRISHMAN IS SHOWING AT CINEMAS NOW

Martin Scorsese returns with his best picture since GoodFellas and one of his best films ever. It’s a superbly acted, thrillingly shot epic mob procedural about violence, betrayal, dishonesty and emotional bankruptcy starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, set in a time before “toxic masculinity” had been formally diagnosed but when everyone lived with the symptoms.

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