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Let's raise a glass to the end of Scotland's drinking-den culture



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Published Date: 17 March 2008
By LESLEY RIDDOCH
SCOTLAND'S pub culture has always been seriously habit-forming. In the drink-sodden 1990s a fellow hack and myself chummed departing Irish delegates to Glasgow Airport after a particularly "spirited" union conference.
We had spent most of it ensconced in the umbilical darkness of the now-defunct Granny Blacks, and after ten minutes' exposure to the overlit airport environment, my companion developed the bends. "Get me to a pub, now."

Twenty minutes later he ...



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  • Last Updated: 16 March 2008 9:03 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
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Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 17/03/2008 15:49:42
Would it be legal to invite people to come to a room on your property, then give them free home brew and allow them to smoke if they so wished?

I somehow think it would be OK.

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Philmugla,

19/05/2008 08:22:39
http://www.alba.org.uk/scotching/greatdeception.html

I found this article very interesting. Appears to expose the myth that Scottish independence would bring financial meltdown to Scotland. The labour party are finished in Scotland they have failed the people miserably over many years because they are essentially powerless and dictated too by Westminster.

Time to go it alone now and give the SNP a chance to deliver a more prosperous Scotland.

 

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