John Gibson: Charlie is a man on a mission

Told him before and I won't tell him again. Charlie Miller's got to ease up and chill out. Else he won't live to be an elderly gent like me.

I found him on the hoof again. He's already "done" Scotland. I traced him this week to Leeds, just as he was catching a train for Manchester. He'd call me when he got there.

Man on a mission on behalf of the Teenage Cancer Trust. He's rallying the troops, prompting some of the UK's prominent hairdressers to handle real hair wigs for the Trust's teenagers.

"And in the hospitals," he explains, "I'm getting the nurses tuned in with these wigs in Newcastle, Liverpool and Southampton. Among the hairdressers supporting the Trust is Richard Ward, whose Chelsea salon styled Kate Middleton's hair for the Royal Wedding.

"Another staunch supporter is The Who's Roger Daltrey. He has organised concerts in London's Albert Hall."

It's a passion with Charlie. He's been involved for three years in this project, now titled Hair4U.

Good man now he's heeding my advice. He and wife Janet are off this weekend for a break in Deia, Majorca.

One more thing

Question on everyone's lips right now? Nothing to do with Jenny Dawe's trams glitch. Nor with RBS splashing quarter of a million on their staff jolly at Wimbledon. Nor, even, on the two and a half billion required to repair Scotland's roads.

No, what we want to know is, who's going to inherit Peter Falk's raincoats?

Mac attack

Purely a matter of time (days?) before our blithering, dithering Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill is ceremoniously dumped in the wake of his boast that Scotland is virtually violence-free. Almost as laughable as Jenny Dawe's glitch.