ONE of Scotland s key roads which has been plagued with landslides is to re-open for the first time in two months - but using a convoy system. The A83 at Rest and be Thankful is being brought back into service from Friday morning as part of a strategy that will see the the main road used during the day when weather conditions permit. During the night-time, the single track alternative route, the Old Military Road (OMR) will be used, which also is run through a single file convoy system, where drivers are escorted along the route by an official vehicle.
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NICOLA Sturgeon’s top official tried to explain her visions for local government to fellow mandarins by using the Oasis hit Wonderall, official files have revealed. Leslie Evans, the Scottish Government’s £170,000-a-year Permanent Secretary, quoted the song in a now baffling PowerPoint presentation released today by the National Records of Scotland. On one slide, Ms Evans offered a choice between Noel Gallagher’s tune and the most famous poem by TS Eliot, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Local Governance: Wasteland or Wonderwall?” she asked above pictures of the two rarely-contrasted wordsmiths. The Wasteland is widely regarded as the most influential poem of the 20th century; Wonderwall won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song in 1996.