Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

ARTIST TAXI DRIVER ‏@chunkymark 10h hours ago

"those looking for a conspiracy at Home Office+No.10 will have to look somewhere else" David Cameron #CameronMustGo

Conspiracy theories are fine, but lets not forget the labour party cover up's.


What is it with Westminster and peedo's?

Peter Smith ‏@Redpeter99 11h hours ago

When nobody was watching Ed claimed £7K a year in expenses and Cameron claimed £135K. Yet another reason why #CameronMustGo

Conservatives well on course to win GE. Cameron still doing an excellent job.

Good gear eh Haystack?


Let me know your dealer.

Big black man on London Bridge.

Conservatives and Labour tied and heading for hung parliament, but Labour should lose most of their seats in Scotland. This would easily make Conservatives the biggest party.

No wrong the polls take into account people living in scotland.

And when the defections start.....well.

If Tories have to rely on a coalition with UKIP............ohhh dear.

Sutton@NFFC ‏@mac123_m 1 hour ago

#CameronMustGo He has resided over disparity between the rich & poor. Wonder where the money goes? Have a look.

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A new pro-independence daily newspaper is expected to launch in Scotland on Monday in response to the burgeoning support for the SNP following the independence campaign.

Called The National, the tabloid will be produced by the stable that publishes Glasgow’s Herald. Priced 50p, it will have a banner reading: “The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland”, and a print run of about 50,000.

The paper has not yet received full funding from the newspaper group Newsquest. Instead it will have a “pilot” launch under the editorship of Richard Walker, who became editor of the Sunday Herald in 2003 and turned it into Scotland’s only overtly SNP-supporting title. During the run-in to September’s referendum the Herald registered a substantial hike in circulation.

Pro-independence The National newspaper details revealed


Details have been released of a pilot which could lead to a new daily, pro-independence newspaper for Scotland.

Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker told a 12,000 crowd of SNP supporters at Glasgow's Hydro that The National would be published from Monday.

However, Mr Walker said publishers Newsquest had only committed to running the newspaper for five days.

Mr Walker, who will edit the paper, said independence supporters needed to convince them there was a market.

The Sunday Herald was the only Scottish newspaper to actively support independence during the referendum.

The new newspaper, which will cost 50p, will be available in newsagents and in an electronic version via online subscription.



Richard Walker will be the editor of The National
The editor told the crowd at the Hydro that people had suggested the paper should cost 45p, to match the percentage of people who voted Yes in the referendum.

But he added: "We are no longer the 45. We are the 50-plus and we will become the 60 and the 70."

He urged independence supporters to ensure that the newspaper became a permanent feature in the Scottish media landscape.

Herald & Times Group managing director Tim Blott said: "It is the first time in many years that a new daily newspaper has been launched in Scotland. The National is an exciting opportunity to meet the needs of a very politically-engaged section of the Scottish population.

"We recognise that launching a newspaper in 2014 is to some extent counter-intuitive but we consistently argue for the power of great journalism and informed opinion.

"We will trial the new title in its proposed format for a week and if, as anticipated, it takes off, then it will become a new and dynamic fixture in Scottish publishing."