Talk of the Town: Programme error just doesn't add up

Published on Tuesday 24 November 2009 08:40

ANDY Robinson is the toast of Scottish rugby and rightly so after he masterminded the stirring 9-8 victory over Australia.

According to the coach's message in the official Murrayfield programme on Saturday though "it's 28 years since Scotland have last beaten Australia".

As a former maths teacher Robinson should be more aware than most that subtracting 1982 – and a tartan triumph in Brisbane – from 2009 is, er, 27 years.

Still, it could have been a longer wait if points scorers Phil Godman and Chris Paterson hadn't shown more accuracy on the pitch than the backroom staff managed in the programme, since under the headline "contents" it was erroneously stated there were biographies of the Fiji team who had provided opposition a week earlier.

Swinney wins a stylish addition to his wardrobe

Get John Swinney to buy you a lottery ticket, because the star signs are obviously beaming down on him.

Not only did he pick up the prestigious political award on Thursday, but on Friday he copped the biggie at the West Lothian Federation of Small Business Dinner

The raffle for the evening featured not one, not two, not even three shell suits, ladies and gentlemen, but twelve. And not just one shell suit. Matching sets of shell suits.

So you can imagine Mr Swinney's delight as the lucky ticket holder number 3, which meant he scooped a set of flame-retardant leisure wear for him and the missus.

Lookalike logo confusion

WHEN guests arrived at Edinburgh Castle's Queen Anne Room recently for the launch of the new Edinburgh Hogmanay programme, they could have been forgiven for thinking they had turned up at the wrong event.

The main screens in the venue were filled with massive bold X logos, prompting Hogmanay organiser Pete Irvine to reassure the audience that this had nothing to do with the X Factor, but was in fact the new branding adopted for this year's event.

The X – which is blue instead of the popular ITV talent contest's red – marks the fact that this year's event will take revellers into 2010.

All aboard the Twitter bus

These days it seems anyone who's anyone has a Twitter account, and now even Edinburgh's number 13 bus has signed up to the micro-blogging website and is offering transport updates for curious passengers.

Followers of @service13Edin can enjoy thrilling tweets with details about the occasional leaks which seems to plague bus 631, the drivers of the day, and even occasional weather updates – "a cold morning, but not frosty".