Like many Edinburgh folk, I fondly remember Loopy Lorna’s lovely tea house at Morningside Station and although its founder is sadly no longer with us, the spirit of her nickname lives on with the minster trying to turn the pig’s ear of the SNP-Green deposit return scheme into a silk purse.
Medics in the NHS have sounded the alarm on Scotland’s vacancy crisis, with GPs under “immense pressure”, patients in hospitals being ignored by overworked staff, and carers being asked to take blood samples.