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
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Hat tip Valerie Jennings
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.
COUNCIL RISKS £ MILLIONS ON ESSO BOWLING SITE
Whoever heard of anyone spending £ millions on a project they would be told little or nothing about? Step forward then West Dunbartonshire Council.
Who else? You may well ask, but the basket case local authority who can be depended on to be right in there when it comes to spending other people’s money on pie in the sky projects. The secrecy obsessed SNP administration would rather you were not aware of progress – or the lack of it – on an A82 relief road into Dumbarton from the Dunglass roundabout.