Rail delays as train hits cow
Alexa, get me a pizza please
TRAIN services between Glasgow and Edinburgh were disrupted yesterday when a train hit a cow which had wandered on to the line between Hartwood and Shotts in Lanarkshire. DOMINO’S Pizza have attempted to halt a sales slump by allowing customers to order using the Amazon Echo voice recognition device and adding GPS tracking for products. FIFTY years ago this week, it became legal to be gay. Sort of.
If you were a man over the age of 21 and living in England or Wales, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalised sex with another consenting man in private.
As long as you were not in the armed forces or merchant navy.
And if you were a gay man living in Scotland, you had to wait until 1980 to have a legal sexual relationship with another guy. In Northern Ireland, it was 1982. The law left lesbians alone. Today, there is a whole industry based around same-sex wedding cake toppers and his-and-his engagement rings.
The BBC are dedicating a season of drama, documentaries and discussion, called Gay Britannia, to remind us it wasn’t always like this.
Flagship show Man in an Orange Shirt is written by novelist Patrick Gale and stars Scottish actors Joanna Vanderham and James McArdle in leading roles.
The author’s novels mine his own experiences as a gay man growing up in England in the 60s and 70s. This is his most personal story yet. When Patrick’s mother was pregnant with him, she discovered a stash of personal letters hidden in her husband’s desk.
He said: “At first she was amused, assuming they were from an old girlfriend he’d never mentioned. Then she was horrified, as she realised they were from an old school and university friend who had been his best man.
“In real life, she destroyed the letters, terrified he’d be arrested for what was then an imprisonable offence. She was also disgusted