The Cafe 2
More about sectarianism
Dark leather and jeans:
it’s time for
the Two Cellos
Rear Window
50 years ago
SR Extra
I was pulled over by a man with a mobile wardrobe of black robes and headscarves at some distance from the Grand Mosque because I was showing some ankle, and had to robe on the spot.
Jill Stephenson
in the Middle East
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Islay’s daily pic
Hotel kitchen worker, Merchant City, Glasgow
Legal briefs
A man called Robert Green recently appeared in Stonehaven Sheriff Court on the minor charge of breach of the peace. The case is sub-judice. Even if we wished to do so, we would be unable to comment upon it.
But we are allowed to report the somewhat unusual bail conditions. Mr Green is prohibited from contacting various people against whom he has made allegations; from contacting people he has alleged are victims; from contacting a named doctor; from making similar allegations; and from entering the local authority areas of Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire.
Two, perhaps three, of these conditions are reasonable, but cumulatively they are extraordinary for so trivial a charge. Mr Green wishes to stand for the Scottish Parliament in the Aberdeen Central constituency. His bail conditions prevent him from doing so effectively, if at all.
Mr Green next appears in the same court on 13 April for what is called an intermediate diet prior to trial. We can only hope that a sense of proportion will prevail and that the restrictions on the accused’s freedom will be relaxed. – KR
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Leading article
The inside story
of Scotland’s demoralised
prison service
Kenneth Roy
What is going on in the Scottish Prison Service? Why, after a poor report in 2009, has confidence in the senior management more or less evaporated?
