Talk of the Town: Jambos hit the net in record numbers

Even though there are no big matches or contentious refereeing decisions to discuss, the main online forum for maroon debate clocked record numbers.

On Monday, there were 3523 people on Jambos Kickback at the same point, around a fifth of the average Tynecastle home attendance.

Users praised the administrators of the website for being able to handle such a rush at once.

Dungeon attempts to bash superstitions - touch wood

IT'S the kind of place that's more likely to flog old superstitions than debunk them, but now the Edinburgh Dungeon is set to hold a "mass superstition-bashing event" on Friday, August 13.

The experiment will begin with a walk under a huge ladder, past a set of upside-down horseshoes and across the path of a black cat.

Once inside, people will be asked to join staff for a mass indoor umbrella-opening before witnessing the spilling of a giant barrel of salt.

Edinburgh Dungeon manager Iain Scouller will be smashing full-size mirrors while other volunteers will be asked to cross repeatedly on a flight of steps.

"Even if we are wrong then at least we're going to be spectacularly wrong!" he said.

Parliamentary peace

SHOCK news - harmony has broken out between the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition and Labour at Westminster.

Scottish Secretary Michael Moore may have thought he was entering the lions' den when he appeared before the Scottish Affairs Select Committee at the House of Commons yesterday, not least because the committee's new chairman is the combative veteran Glasgow Labour MP Ian Davidson. But, after a couple of hours, Mr Davidson wound up proceedings by thanking Mr Moore and telling him: "You're clearly not as bad as people expected."

Asbo call is flight of fancy

THE council certainly isn't shy of pursuing Asbos for noisy residents, but it'll have a job trying to bring these Leithers to book.

One Buchanan Street resident has called on the council to do something about seagull noise.

The anonymous resident said: "Persistent and extremely loud seagull noise from as early as 3am in the morning onwards. This is total noise pollution. Can something be done?"

Maybe if environmental services asked the seagulls very nicely . . .