Dugdale’s ‘warning’ for going on I’m A Celebrity

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5 years ago

KEZIA Dugdale has escaped suspension over her decision to ditch the Scottish Parliament to appear on a reality TV show 10,000 miles away. The former Scottish Labour leader provoked widespread controversy after taking an “unauthorised” break from her job to go on I’m a Celebrity...get Me Out of Here! But after she flew back to Scotland, new party leader Richard Leonard decided to issue her with just a “written warning” following a 45-minute meeting in Edinburgh. In a statement released through the party, Ms Dugdale insisted she was “getting back to work”, adding: “I deeply regret that this caused issues in the first weeks of Richard Leonard’s leadership.”

10 years ago

IT was first coined by the aggressive, fictional government spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker in TV satire The Thick Of It while he berated his staff or bosses. Now Tucker, played by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi, has seen his word omnishambles entered into the real-life lexicon after the Oxford English Dictionary named it as the Word of the Year. It has frequently made it into print, online and even been used by the Labour leader in the House of Commons since Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg suffered a series of damaging headlines over policies.

25 years ago

A national science centre on the derelict Glasgow Garden Festival site was effectively given the go-ahead yesterday when the project was awarded £35m in the latest lottery cash handout – the final round of grants to be awarded by the

Millennium Commission. Officials masterminding plans for the £71.5m X-site Science Centre will now seek to complete the “final piece of the jigsaw” in the funding package by securing a grant of £19m from the European Union. Glasgow Development Agency is confident it will secure the European Regional Development Fund grant within the next few weeks and is predicting the centre at Pacific Quay will be up in time for the millennium.

50 years ago

A £10m international trading and conference centre with a hotel is likely to be built in Glasgow by the Lyon Group (Scotland), Ltd. Mr A. Campbell Fraser, managing director of the company, said last night: “We have been examining a number of sites for the project for nine months, and have narrowed the search down to Queen’s Dock, Finnieston, which is owned by Glasgow Corporation, and ground near Glasgow Airport. We will be approaching the corporation soon about our plans for Queen’s Dock.”

100 years ago

THE cry has gone forth that the historic Auld Brig of Ayr is endangered by Ayr Town Council’s proposal to reclaim a part of the river bed between the old and new bridges, and as a consequence the Town Council, at their monthly meeting yesterday, were inundated with protests from various public bodies and private individuals. The letters read included one from the Ancient Monuments Board of Scotland, in which it was indicated that if the council persevered with their scheme it might be necessary for the Board to intervene. The council, on the motion of Provost Mcdonald, agreed to refer the question to the Works Committee, for further consideration.