In our debate “Should the 9pm TV watershed be abolished?” (New Review, last week, page 4) we mistakenly reported that the film Fifty Shades of Grey had a 15 certificate. To clarify: the British Board of Film Classification has given the trailer of the film a 15 certificate. The film itself is classified 18.
If Jeremy Sinclair did indeed give a message to a “Tory campaign director in 2002 as he sought to rescue John Major from an early prime ministerial grave” he was 10 years too late. (“The poster boys who governed politics”, New Review, last week, page 35).
Our Great City Walks special last week claimed that Glasgow (page 14) was the second largest city in Scotland, but it is the largest, outstripping Edinburgh’s population by more than 100,000. It also said: “The Kelvingrove bandstand, dating from 1924… has fallen into disrepair and performances are no longer held there, though there is talk of restoring it for future use.” It is in fact fully restored, hosting gigs by Belle and Sebastian among others throughout last summer’s Commonwealth Games. And the building that houses An Clachan cafe may have been built for the 1911 Exhibition but before becoming a cafe it served Glaswegians as a public convenience.
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