10 SMILES OF THE WEEK

BRIGHT SPOT

SCIENTISTS in Dundee may have found a cure for acne. One of the most embarrassing teenage problems could be at an end. Hooray!

AYE, SPY

THANKS to the success of The Night Manager, the BBC are going to adapt another John LeCarre novel. When are they going to do a Scone Spy movie?

HANGING UP

BT have introduced a simple service where you can block nuisance callers by dialling 1572. The preferred method at iN10 towers used to be putting nuisance callers on hold, then going to do something else for, say, an hour.

HOLA TO THE SUN

The Scottish Highlands were warmer than Majorca last week. Excellent. The perfect excuse if ever we had it to take more siestas, pour a sangria and put off those boring jobs until manana!

LOAN ARRANGER

EIGHT men have as much money as half of the world’s population. Can one of you eight fellows loans us £20? Go on, we’ll square you up on payday.

CATCH OF THE DAY

AN AYR fisherman has been given a Royal Humane Society award after jumping into a harbour to save a woman who’d fallen in. His best catch!

PUPPY LOVE

VETS at the PDSA in Glasgow used their skills to save 12-week-old puppy Macie who had swallowed an EIGHT-INCH kitchen knife. That’s animal magic!

RAISE A GLASS

WEDNESDAY is Burns’ Night, so we’re looking forward to sitting down to a big plate of haggis, neeps and tatties and having a dram in honour of our Bard.

SURPRISE SURPRISE

A STATUE of Cilla Black has been unveiled in Liverpool. It’ll get a lorra, lorra visitors...

KEEP ON STROLLING

Gentle exercise is as effective as v vigourous activity. Time for a walk!