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One of only two surviving players from the “greatest day” in the history of St Andrews United Football Club has told how he wishes he could do it all again.
Eighty-seven-year-old former bulldozer driver
Tommy Will told The Courier his memories of beating Greenock Juniors in the
Scottish Junior Cup Final at Hampden Park on May 21, 1960, were without a doubt “one of the highlights” of his life.
Court out GLASGOW lawyer Matthew Berlow tells us of a chap who discovered he had been picked for jury duty. The fellow explained to the legal authorities that he couldn’t accept this important public responsibility as he had already sat on a jury sometime before. Later he was thinking about his time in court and realised how strange it had been, with famous faces galore and TV cameras pointing in every direction. “It transpired that his memory was confused,” explains Matthew. “The jury he sat on was when he played an extra in a court scene of the soap opera River City.”
Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond (Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
Alex Salmond claims his reported remarks about the SNP being captured by “loony tune transgender warriors” are inaccurate, insisting those were not his “exact words”.
The Alba party leader and former first minister of Scotland is alleged to have made the comment to Scottish broadcaster Jim Spence, who reported it in
“If you’d told me seven years ago that the party that I once led would be captured by around a hundred loony tune transgender warriors I’d have laughed at you,” Salmond purportedly said.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon condemned the alleged comments, describing his words as “pretty offensive” and “a complete mischaracterisation of reality”.