- Man charged in house attack inquiry
- Marchers support same-sex marriage
- Ferry collides with harbour wall
- Further fall in house prices: Study
- Shop sales fall biggest since 1999
- MPs seek 'answers' on independence
- BAA warning on Heathrow hub plans
- Independence 'key to growth boost'
- Unemployment rate up by 16,000
- Toddler death case report released
- Two arrested after house drugs raid
- Sheridan in legal bid over damages
- First-time buyers seize duty bonus
- Panda cake treat for zoo keepers
- Homelessness 'down by a fifth'
- Third man held in ear attack probe
- Rail signal staff on 24-hour strike
- Fishing quotas talks set to resume
- Valentine treat for solo polar bear
- Rangers to go into administration
John Gibson
John Gibson: Tel Aviv’s telling us to eat cake
Let them eat cake. Make your minds up, for gawd’s sake! First the scientists are telling us that fry-ups at breakfast are bad for our metabolism. Now they’re saying that cake along with the big fry ultimately can be slimming.
John Gibson: It’s me and Tam and the Belgrano
You’d think we’d heard the last of the General Belgrano, the cruiser put to bed by a British submarine 30 years ago.
But no.
John Gibson: Quiet life now for the skipper
SKIPPERS was a credit to Leith’s waterfront culinary scene for some 15 years before owner Allan Corbett abandoned ship, so to speak, around 2000.
John Gibson: Bin this plan for a Big Wheel
Do tell us, John, we’re all dying to get your views on the Big Wheel (tall as the Scott Monument, you wouldn’t believe!) planned for Princes Street Gardens. What’s the spin?
John Gibson: This voice she would not believe
No more than it deserves. One of its former high-profile employees, Janet Street Porter is giving the BBC a roasting. “Like the Titanic, going down fast,’’ she fumes, reluctant to throw anyone a lifebelt.
John Gibson: Life’s one big ball for them!
We shouldn’t be surprised our schools are disgorging so many nincompoops (I consulted the Oxford for the spelling) into the job-seeking jungle.
John Gibson: Porty pic has been delayed
You could say it’s been delayed in the post. Edinburgh filmmaker Ian Rintoul planned on having his latest work, Postcards from Portobello, out and running by the end of this month.
John Gibson: Now take it from Kenny Chan
A NEW dawn for Kenny Chan down at Dundas Street. He has given up at the Kweilin but not gone far. To Barnton. He’d recently recovered from the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon, when he explained the move.
John Gibson: You must meet his new bird
True romance at long last? “John, I must introduce you to my new bird,’’ Norrie Rowan is frothing.
John Gibson: Am I too hard on their heels?
I’ve stood next to Tom Cruise. Well, in his shadow. And height-wise Tom, when you get up close and relatively personal, is a wee bit soul. A comparative smout.
4 commentsJohn Gibson: No thanks to tramsfor Welches
Sleeping with the fishes? No way, Gary Welch is telling me their Queensferry Street fishmongers at the West End has been obliged to close, as we told you in Saturday’s paper, but they are still very much in business.
John Gibson: All smiles from happy retailer
Laughing all the way to the wardrobe. Paul Slater, managing director of Slaters, the outfitters, was beaming when he called in at George Street, one of their 22 branches in the UK.
John Gibson: Squaring up to the new year
It hardly presents the pristine picture it did from Harvey Nichols’ fourth floor, the top storey, it did to us, Gordon Drummond and I, after St Andrew Square’s make-over.
John Gibson: Even Tony sent him a message
Never much cared for his politics. Nor, if I may venture, for his football team. But everybody else loved George Foulkes, it seems.
John Gibson: Tickled by Tamara’s dinky dad
Tickled, I was, at the family portrait of the wee man, Bernie Ecclestone, standing on something (a soap box maybe) to bring him up to the same altitude as his wife and two daughters.
John Gibson: Bringing a tear to these eyes
This can reduce me to tears so forgive me while I mop them up. I’ll be with you a couple of sheikhs.
John Gibson: Heavy-duty gear for the big bums
Pandamonium. The buzz is that if Scotland wins independence – perish the thought – China will want the pandas sent back.
John Gibson: More than a bus driver is getting
If you’ve just come down from the isle of Skye, bored stupid listening to Andy’s albums and you’ve arrived in the big city desperate to find a job, I’ve got one for you here.
2 commentsJohn Gibson: It’s treeson by our city councillors
Woodchoppers have been having a ball running amok chopping down trees to make way for trams. This is bare-faced “treeson”, folks. Plain and simple.
John Gibson: Here’s the new west side story
Golfing in the bleak mid-winter. Play in virtually all weathers. You’d have to be a nut to clown around with a club these days in these parts.
- Rangers run into the ground as furious HRMC battles to claw back tax
- Broken Rangers: Club signals intention to go into administration
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- Rangers blame HMRC for driving club to brink of administration
- Six Nations: Steadman given notice as ruthless Robinson seeks to strengthen team
- Scottish independence: No breakthrough in talks between Alex Salmond and Michael Moore
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- The Rumour Mill: Tuesday’s football news and gossip
- Devo-max merely a dodgy back-up plan to save SNP, says Jim Sillars
- The Rumour Mill: Monday’s football news and gossip
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