QUOTES OF THE WEEK

I’ve always been very dubious about flag- wavers, they usually lead people into wars

Billy Connolly says he can understand why people want independence but not why they want to parade about it

I thought to myself nothing ventured, nothing gained

Anne-marie Walker, 72, says she enjoyed her first surfing lesson at Lossiemouth

I would like to think someone will open it. Whisky is produced to be drunk

Tim Triptree, of Christies, after a bottle of 60-year-old ABV Macallan 1926 sold for £1.2m, the dearest ever

The nightmares I’ve been having since are terrible

Billy Bryson, of Angus, after his daughter was found alone on a beach after being allowed to wander off from a children’s club at a hotel in Tunisia

This is the fourth application made... under the double jeopardy rules

The Crown Office apply to charge Sean Flynn, cleared of murdering his mother Louise Tiffney in Edinburgh in 2002 for the second time

I remember looking down and thinking ‘this is it’

Chris Gursky on realising his harness wasn’t attached to his paraglider. After hanging on by his fingertips, he narrowly survived after crashlanding... in a gun range