Talk of the Town: A lesson in delays for tram trainees

YOU may be waiting a while before you take up the post, but should you want to improve your chances of securing a job as one of the city's tram drivers, then we've found the course for you.

The first dedicated vocational qualification for light rail and tram drivers has been launched following approval by awarding organisation City and Guilds.

There's likely to be a few jobs going, too, at some point, but probably best to have something to tide you over in the meantime.

Othelio wax lyrical over Britain's Got Talent snub

BRITAIN'S Got Talent act Othelio had another dig at Simon Cowell after visiting a rather dubious waxwork of the music mogul in Blackpool.

Craig and Deborah Stephens, who released their first single in June despite being criticised by the judge on the show, made a trip to Louis Tussaud's Waxworks recently. And they joked, 'Who's the dummy now Simon?'

Birth of a mystery

SOMEONE near South Queensferry must have received a special delivery on Friday, as one local resident thinks she spotted a stork flying overhead.

Eileen Case said she saw the bird flying over her house just before 1pm.

Scotland is not noted for its native stork population, so either this stork was very lost or an escapee. Anyone lost a stork?

Cooking up the future

COOKING and cleaning will be a thing of the past by 2040... but only in Edinburgh apparently.

This was the claim of a London PR agency promoting Ikea kitchens, citing new "research" that claims half the people in Edinburgh think future technologies will play a big part in their kitchens in 2040 and over half will never have to clean their kitchen again.

The rest of the country will still be scrubbing dishes with a manky cloth by candlelight, presumably.