Talk of the Town: Wedding wannabes have a ticket to bride

AS FAR as reality TV goes, we thought we'd seen it all.

That was, of course, until the arrival of the latest show – Brides On A Bus.

The concept is simple: brides-to-be are played off against each other while travelling the length and breadth of the UK on a double decker bus for the chance to win their dream wedding in Gretna Green.

They stop at various towns and cities along the way, trying their hand at everything from sheep-herding to cheese wrapping in a bid to prove their worth and win the wedding.

Sadly, the "dream" prize won't be going to Edinburgh resident Gail Turner, who gets booted off the bus in the first episode after failing to win a race in an indoor soft-play area.

On the plus side, at least she doesn't have to spend her final days as a single woman with presenter David Van Day.

Convenience store counts cost of 'pornography' boob

IT IS not often that the price of pornography is debated in a council meeting, but when the licensing board met recently, it was a crucial part of the decision-making process.

Police had asked for the board to review the licence of a convenience store after they claimed the shop had sold alcohol to under-age teenagers after the licensed hours.

Officers are said to have seen youths outside the store with bags full of four-packs of Fosters. When police went in to check the till roll, there were five transactions, each described as "news and mags", for 3.59 each – the same price as a four-pack of Fosters.

The shopkeeper insisted that the items were pornography, not beer.

However, Councillor Eric Barry was sceptical, saying that he didn't buy porn but the magazines he did buy tended to be priced ending in 5p or 10p.

The shop had its alcohol licence suspended for four weeks.

Students urge Facebook ban

MOST students would do anything to distract themselves from studying.

But conscientious Edinburgh University students Megan Taylor and Paris Gourtsoyannis are bucking the trend by trying to get the ultimate distraction – Facebook – banned from their library.

Perhaps a Facebook group would help promote their campaign . . .

Hook, decline and stinker

A DEFEAT by Capital rugby rivals Watsonians on Saturday was sufficient to seal Stewart's Melville's relegation from Division One of the Scottish Hydro Premiership and clearly they have known better days, as reflected by the club's own website.

Referring to their poor passing, the site talks of "being undone by Abu Hamza handling" – a reference to the radical cleric identifiable by the hook where his hand used to be.

An apt description, then, for a game where the ba' burst for Stew-Mel's hopes of avoiding the drop.