Talk of the Town: Allotment keepers take a dig at city

The latest newsletter from the Federation of Edinburgh and District Allotment and Garden Associations certainly appears to be taking a potshot at the council over the lack of plots.

An article by "Ruby Chard" talks of launching a campaign for plotholders who keel over amidst their carrots to be allowed to push up daisies on the same site.

Ruby continues: "Waiting lists are so long that by the time people get a plot they may well be on their last legs. The council has a moral duty to consider what course to take should more and more deaths occur on allotments due to lack of new sites."

Neds are no match for a stuttering posh lad

EDINBURGH is often accused (especially by our Glaswegian cousins) of being just a wee bit on the posh side, and their argument got fresh wind with news from the Filmhouse at the weekend.

As Peter Mullan's gritty Glasgwegian film, Neds, was released, it was bumped off the cinema's main screen on its opening night - because cinemagoers were still flocking to see The King's Speech. We know what we like and it's apparently stuttering royals, not troubled young Weegies.

The House of Lordzzz

LOTHIANS MSP and Labour peer George Foulkes is proving one his party's most effective warriors in the ongoing battle in the House of Lords over the Government's Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Bill.

Having endured one all-night sitting last week, Lord Foulkes was ready for another marathon session but it was unexpectedly cut short in the early hours.

Around 2am on Thursday, Labour proposed the House should adjourn but the Government voted the idea down.

Lord Foulkes says: "Then they put me in to bat and I caused so much mayhem and boredom that by 3am the Government themselves moved to adjourn."

Sticking the boot in

IT might be ungentlemanly conduct to kick your rivals when they are down, but that has never stopped football fans before . . .

"The BBC has confirmed Hibs' Ian Murray has been approached to appear in the next series of Strictly Come Dancing," says one Jambo reader. "TV bosses were impressed by Murray's footwork when Ayr United's Mark Roberts made the player turn himself inside out four times in a pivot movement that most professional dancers would have been proud of."