Lorne Jackson
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Punishment exercise: How to hit Man City where it hurts (opens the original)
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The big news in English football is that Manchester City (a team based in the city of Manchester, funnily enough) is in deep trouble. The club’s been found guilty of almost all of the 115 Premier League charges they were facing. Reader Calum Spence says the once illustrious club must now squirm in agony under a suitably stringent punishment. “Let them play in the Scottish Premiership for one entire year,” cackles Calum malevolently. “That’ll teach ‘em.” Madonna, the legendary pop diva, appeared
Themâs the breaks: Itâs an independent frame of mind (opens the original)
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Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. Intrigued Diary correspondent Neil Deane notes that Leith is seeking to gain independence from the city of Edinburgh. âFirst Scotland, under John Swinney, demands independence from the rest of the UK,â points out Neil. âNow Leith wants shot of Old Reekie.
TV or not TV? A tale of a torpor-tortured teenâs travails (opens the original)
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The Diary has been warning of an autumnal infestation of lazy teenagers, turning up in peopleâs homes along with the earwigs and spiders. Patricia West gets in touch to tell us about her daughter, Jane, who happens to be one of the above. (Not an earwig or spider⦠a lazy teen.) The other evening Jane was mushed into the sofa, watching TV, when she said to Patricia: âMum, can you turn the channel?â âWhy not use the remote control?â said Patricia. âBut itâs on the coffee table, and
Worker or shirker? Thatâs the question needing answered (opens the original)
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The 16-year-old grandson of reader Philip Platt has the dynamism of a freshly salted slug. He spends more time being horizontal than the horizon spends being horizontal. (And thatâs an awful lot of horizontal.) Struggling to hide his disgust at this state of affairs, Philip suggested to the sofa-slumping, semi-slumbering youth that he might consider looking for a Saturday job. âWhen I was your age, I worked every Saturday in a bakery,â explained Philip, âand I had to get up at 6am.â â
Coffee shop confrontation and the weighty issue of age (opens the original)
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Just about to pay for his drink in a coffee shop, reader Bob Wilson accidentally dropped his credit card on the floor. He spent the next thirty seconds scrabbling about as he attempted to pick it up. “Do you want me to get that for you?” asked the lady who was next in the queue. Bob politely declined her offer and (eventually) managed to snatch the errant credit card. A few hours later he was telling his teenage son about the afternoon’s adventure. “That lady in the queue must have thought I was
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