Last month a homeless man pleaded guilty to two charges of dishonestly making a false representation after booking in for three nights at a £70-per-night hotel and pretending to be Louis Theroux, a BBC presenter. The hotel staff became suspicious on the second night when he ordered room service including ‘some fags’ rather than ‘cigarettes’. This was a modern version…
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Many years ago, as a young priest, I went on a training course. There I found out I would share my room with a famous comedian who was to attend that course as well. I’d admired him for years, and was really thrilled at such a prospect. But I also knew that many artists like to keep a low profile…
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After climbing the three Munros on the east bank of Loch Treig it was logical to do the other side. Having known the weather would be hot I decided to start early to climb up as much as possible before the heatwave struck. It turned out to be a good idea: both tops I climbed before 11am. [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1-f7ntqxnyGagBUKMF9UhCJ5pSzk&w=100%&h=600]
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For some undisclosed reasons I’ve been recently stuck in the east Lochaber area; each time I was going to the hills the weather had been forecast pretty bad anywhere else, and pretty good there. Last Monday it was exactly the same story: I really had wanted to go to the Ullapool or Glen Cannich areas, but the forecast had made…
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Watching the news, listening to the radio and reading newspapers are the main sources of our knowledge about the world, near and far. Our choice of media certainly shapes our views, but similarly our views play an important role in choosing particular TV channels, radio stations and newspapers. We’d like to believe that our views and opinions are impartial and…