The Trial of Christine Keeler (BBC Two, Sunday, 9pm), its latest telling, begins with a disclaimer, admitting some details have been altered for dramatic effect, before adding, in a gossipy aside, “But mainly, you couldn’t make it up.”
Month: December 2019
WHY NOT BUILD MORE HOUSES LIKE THIS?
Fiona Kyle thinks we should build more houses like this one at Talisman Avenue, Westcliff, instead of the “prison-like” flats in Dumbarton Town Centre. Do you agree?
NO ROOM AT THE INN, NOT EVEN AN INN UNDER NATS
Scottish Liberal Democrats have described it as a “tragedy” that 12,300 children didn’t have a home to call their own last Christmas and called for a “social rent revolution”.
OBITUARY: DOUGLAS STORY DALGLEISH
He was President of the Dumbartonshire Golf Union, served on the executive of the Scottish Golf Union and was elected President of that body in 1994. During his year in office he travelled extensively around Scotland and Europe, and also attended the Masters Tournament at Augusta Georgia.
NEW YEAR HONOURS COMMENTS FROM KEN LOACH
Since he is a great believer in freedom of speech, Ken won’t mind me saying that while he has made some fantastic movies, his last one was a disaster. I watched it in The Tower with half a dozen others and was well disposed to it until it started. He gilded the lily enough to put me and his fans on alert for his next one. In order to avoid it. And I am no Monarchist.
EVEN SPECIAL COPS ARE HANDING IN THEIR HANDCUFFS
The SNP government have come under a two-pronged attack over their failure to keep special constables on the beat. And ignoring the fact that significant numbers of police are off work with mental health problems. Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has warned that the police’s Special Constabulary could “vanish altogether” after he revealed that their numbers have nosedived since the SNP’s police centralisation.