(Please read the following in a Hollywood mover trailer-style deep voice. Thanks). As the morning dawned there was nothing to suggest it would be anything other than another normal day. Two fishermen set sail as ordinary men. But after two days lost at sea and presumed dead they returned. AS HEROES. This (massive pause) is their incredible story.
(Start speaking normally again now. Ta).
And that incredible story (which you may well recall) is, despite what I said above, being told not in a Hollywood movie, but through the medium of a sea shanty.
The song to be revealed this weekend focuses on the flask of tea and wafer biscuits that sustained the men during their astonishing adventure. Braw.
Chelsea flower show. A jolly decent place for the cream of the gardening crop to gather and exchange expertise while mercilessly trying to prove you have the greenest fingers of all, pulverising your competitors into the dust in the process. Or something like that. In Wednesday’s Courier we meet the Perthshire competitors who have just returned to Tayside following unprecedented success at the flagship contest. Hurrah.
We also have a count down of Scotland’s finest authors. Who gets the top Rankin? You can Banks on us to provide the answer. (And there are a couple of subtle clues in there for you…).
Meanwhile, readers can find out remarkable details of a remarkable discovery in Dundee. Which just happens to be known as the City of Discovery. Which makes the whole thing all the more remarkable. Archaeology fans will love it.
In the wonderful world of sport, Gordon Strachan’s Scotland and Billy Stark’s under-21s are both in action on Wednesday night and we have previews of their games against Nigeria and Holland respectively.
Arbroath manager Paul Sheerin tells us why he’ll be playing on into his fifth decade (ooft), and Jimmy Nicholl looks forward to being part of the league everybody is talking about (the Championship, just in case you aren’t listening when everybody is talking about it).
In Paris, Andy Murray was in French Open action, as was fellow Brit Heather Watson.
We’ve also got news of a Dundee teenager who has made a big leap forward in the rugby world.
For more on every last one of these (potential) classics, plus countless (actually I could count them but it would take too long and it’s ultimate worth would be dubious) see Wednesday’s Courier. Alternatively you might very well wish to pick up our digital edition.