The health secretary says she knew two months ago that a child had died as a result of contaminated water at a Glasgow hospital, but did not make it public.
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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.
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.
WAVES ON THE SHORE by BERNADETTE CONROY
Great book for Christmas, especially if you have some Irish connections. Waves on the Shore. The life and times of a Connemara Island, Inishturk
FIRST LADY OF BBC IS HONOURED BY EDITORS
Broadcaster and journalist Kate Adie was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Society of Editors’ 20th anniversary gala dinner yesterday. The event at Stationers’ Hall in London, was packed with an invited audience spanning the industry, and Adie was greeted with a storm of applause as she took the podium to respond.
HARRIS JUMPS DYKE OVER CORBYN LEADERSHIP
BBC Scotland is reporting that a former Labour minister has urged voters to back the Conservatives in the general election to keep “extremist” Jeremy Corbyn out of power. Tom Harris claimed that Mr Corbyn had “instinctively sided with our country’s enemies” over the years.