Sensational stuff as a Tayside civic leader rolls around on the floor in an unseemly spat.
No, your eyes do not deceive you. It is my sombre duty to inform you that one of the most senior elected officials in local politics spent a portion of Friday embroiled in a frankly unseemly spat with a punter. See the sensational pics in Saturday’s Courier. Please do prepare for your ghast to be well and truly flabbered.
If you have a couple of hundred grand burning a hole in your pocket then boy (or indeed girl), do I have a proposition for you?
Yes I do.
And it is this:
For that very sum (£200K for the terminally short of memory) you could snap up £30 million worth of kit. More precisely you could get your mitts on a Cold War nuclear bunker in Perthshire.
Covering 26,000 square feet, the underground structure features 50 rooms including a TV studio, canteen, phone exchange and dormitories as well as decontamination showers (handy for those with small children) and an impressive array of life support machines (elderly relatives also catered for).
It really is the perfect family home (minus any form of natural light). Act quickly it’s likely to be especially popular with the chronically paranoid.
Furthermore, may I run a nasty argument about flags up the pole (as it were)? Thousands have been spent on disputed standards on Angus council buildings. And there is no sign of the row flagging. Tee and indeed hee. Don’t miss all the latest in Saturday’s Courier. We love flying the flag for local news.
If you are enjoying (and I very much hope that isn’t putting things too strongly) this little teaser in the company of your children and/or at the dinner table then STOP. We have news on just what impact our apparently insatiable appetite for mobile devices is having on family life.
There is an old saying that even the man with one thousand eyes would struggle to see all the sport at the weekend.
Of course, there isn’t really any such saying but I am endeavouring to make it abundantly clear that with the end of the working week comes a plethora of sporting activity.
That being duly established, it would perhaps be an opportune moment to point out that as well as the usual previews of all the weekend action Courier Sport has exclusive news of a defender interesting Dundee United manager Jackie McNamara.
Meanwhile, rugby writer Steve Scott is in Cardiff (must be nice) for the Six Nations finale, and he’s spoken to debutante Dougie Fife and coach Scott Johnson.
It’s the kind of weekend offering almost certain (though not guaranteed in any kind of legally binding way) to send you weak at the knees. Don’t miss out do pick up your copy. If your default position is to say “pah” to print, fear not, why not simply try our digital edition?