Quotes of the week

It is Dickensian to have the Lord Provost swanning around in a chauffeurdriven Rolls Royce

Labour MP Paul Sweeney on Glasgow City Council’s newly donated £235,000 official car

I don’t understand why it’s not an attractive proposition. Things have to change

Fruit farmer William Houston wonders why jobless Scots do not want to pick berries

We only set out to do the best we possibly could

Kenny Dalglish on knighthood and what motivated his charity work with wife Marina

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The cost of a Rolls Royce gifted to Glasgow City Council has provoked criticism

fraud attacks by organised criminals were revealed by TSB after the bank’s computer meltdown

Donald Trump says Russia should be allowed back into G7 group of major nations

It was an extremely difficult, turbulent time for many

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson announces a review into impact of policing during the Miners’ Strike

I send characters I don’t want to write about any more to Aberdeen. They can freeze to death

Novelist Alexander McCall Smith on his literary exiles

I can’t believe an arts organisation is objecting to a tribute to one of the world’s greatest artists

Owner Alan Crosson on complaints about a Charles Rennie Mackintosh mural at Glasgow’s Clutha bar