They’re having a BABY!
The world has stopped turning on its axis (again) because Wills and Kate are pregnant (actually, just Kate, but you know what I mean).
Cue great excitement.
It even united those on either side of the independence referendum campaign trial (albeit not for long). Salmond said he was “delighted”. Meanwhile, David Cameron said he was “delighted”. You don’t get much more united than that, I would contend.
But (as the eagle-eyed of you will have noted from the above paragraph) the truce did not last for long. No, it was soon back to the rough and tumble of the big debate.
The pound, the NHS, new powers…All proved contentious as one side said some things and the other side said some other things. Often the two were diametrically opposed. Making it all jolly interesting. Our political editor Kieran Andrews spent his morning, afternoon and much of the evening, pondering, probing and latterly writing all about it.
I predict that, when you read his finely crafted reportage, you will hum, haw and very possibly gasp with amazement.
Meanwhile, it was the end of an era at RAF Leuchars as fast jets left the site for the last time. Plane spotters gathered to take final pictures. The planes are jolly impressive and make one heck of a roar when they take to the skies. But no more. They will all be based in Lossiemouth in future. We look back, and at the same time forward. It’s an age-old journalistic technique, which rather happily ensures the whole story is wrapped up.
Do you have a brother or sister? And if so did you beat them mercilessly and repeatedly when they were young?
If so, you may well have unwittingly contributed to them being emotionally unstable in their older years.
Don’t thank me for that insight, thank boffins who have carried out an extensive study.
They’ve also made a chocolate teapot (I kid you not).
More on both of these sensational, succinct, not to mention superb, stories in Tuesday’s Courier.
I have heard people describe Tuesday as a rather nondescript, even somewhat bland, day. But it doesn’t have to be that way and it won’t for our army of readers. Please do make sure you are numbered among them. If you don’t want to snap up a paper version feel free to give our digital edition a whirl. There is every chance you won’t regret it (and only a miniscule one that you will. And I rather like those odds).