Labour suspensions over Corbyn motion

Labour has suspended a number of members who passed a motion criticising the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn for his reaction to the damning report into anti-Semitism within the party during his leadership.

The group from the Bristol West Constituency Labour Party (CLP) face disciplinary action over the motion, which branded the former leader’s treatment as a “politically motivated attack against the left” of the party.

Labour general secretary David Evans had warned local parties against discussions and motions in relation to disciplinary cases, but the Bristol West CLP wrote to party leader Keir Starmer to condemn Mr Corbyn’s suspension and demand his reinstatement.

Pau l Ramsay ’s distinguished title of the L aird of Bamff owes much to Reekie Linn.

The 166-hectare Bamff estate, located a couple of miles south west of Reekie Linn, has been owned by the Ramsay family since 1232, when Neish Ramsay, a doctor, was given the lands of Bamff, Fyal, Kinkeadly and Ardormie, as a reward for saving the life of his patient, King Alexander II of Scotland.

He is reputed to have removed a hairball from his stomach in an early successful operation.

Paul, 74, who is the 28th generation of his family to own the estate, tells a longer story.

Neish, was asked by his master to leave his studies in Bologna, find Reekie Linn and wait there for the white serpent that lived in the cave by the waterfall.

The serpent appeared and Neish quickly killed it and cut it into pieces.

He returned to Italy where his master – possibly a magician – instructed him to boil the serpent in the great laboratory cauldron.

He inadvertently tasted the liquid and discovered it gave him the ability to see into bodies – X-ray vision or ultrasound in modern parlance.

Taking a vial of the substance he returned to Scotland, where the country was in a state of despair because King Alexander II was grievously ill and no physician could heal him

Neish, with his new power, stepped in to help and spotted a hairball blocking the k i n g ’s stomach and on October 9 1232, Ale xander II granted the land of Bamff to his doctor.