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Novelist Alan Bissett has revealed that he is writing a play about Scottish football legend Graeme Souness. The author hopes the play, which will be staged next year, the 30th anniversary of Souness’s appointment as player-manager of Rangers, will be a “serious piece of theatre about a serious man”. Souness caused a revolution following his appointment, bringing in a host of top England internationalists and controversially signing Catholic former Celtic player Mo Johnston in 1989.

Scots stunt cyclist Danny Macaskill is pedalling his way to Hollywood fame and fortune after being offered to work on a major new film. Macaskill, 24, became a Youtube phenomenon after a video was posted of him performing daredevil stunts. He has now been offered a lucrative deal by the team behind the last Indiana Jones moves. In the movie – Premium Rush – which begins filming in Manhattan in April – a group of bike messengers are pursued through New York by a criminal gang.

The group behind the Tivoli Gardens-style proposal for the redevelopment of the former garden festival site has claimed its plan would give Glasgow the “unique major tourist attraction” which the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board and Convention Bureau said the city badly needs. However, the board’s chairman, Councillor Pat Lally, said the garden scheme was not necessarily what the tourist board had in mind. Mr Lally, leader of Glasgow District Council, said he was “not terribly enthusiastic”.