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Martin Taylor started playing the guitar when he was so young that he can’t remember a time when he didn’t do so. Photograph: Jo Hanley Photography

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The king of the strings: Meeting legendary jazz guitarist Martin Taylor
I’M going to begin this piece with an incredibly contrived analogy, so please accept my sincerest apologies and bear with me.

Paul Black has just had a pilot commissioned by BBC Three and BBC Scotland. Picture: Eduardo Garcia Martin

Exclusive interview Black Comedy: The Scots comic whose observational quips have landed him a BBC pilot

"ARE you gonnae dae that thing at the start?” Paul Black asks me. “I love when interviewers dae this, when they write something like … Paul Black joins me via Zoom. He has a single curl hanging down and resting gently on his forehead.”

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Outrage over the vegan sausage roll even made the very reasonable and calm Piers Morgan lose the plot

Outrage over vegan sausage rolls? It’s gonna be a long 2019

VEGAN sausage rolls, eh. Judging by the reaction of some folk online yesterday, they seem to be quite clearly a harbinger of the apocalypse.

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'Brexit? Wit is it? Is that a politics hing as well, aye?'

Exclusive Brexit: An exclusive extract from Chris McQueer's HWFG

‘IT’S a f*ckin terrible hing,’ one of the apprentices said. ‘Noo we cannae joost up an leave an go an work in a bar in Ibiza or anywhere like that. It’s no right, man.’

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A sunbed shop must rank quite low in the league table of places to get locked in

Locked in the sunbeds and stabbed in Antarctica... Aye, it's been a mad week
I’VE just read about a woman from Paisley who was locked in a tanning salon after she fell asleep on a sunbed. It’s just as well the sunbeds only run for the length of time you pay for as the scene the next day could have been much more harrowing than just a sweaty, unwashed bed.