McMurdoch - but no kilt

Rupert Murdoch did not wear a kilt to the grand opening of his monster new Eurocentral printing plant outside Glasgow today, but he was keen to remind the assembly of the great and the good about his Scottish ancestry. "My own grandfather, a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, left these shores in 1884 to go to Melbourne and set up a branch of the Presbyterian Church in Australia," he told the assembled throng. "So I have deep Scottish roots. And I have great respect for the way Scots throughout history have so often led the world in technology and education. This makes me doubly proud to join you all today." The media mogul's grandfather left the town of Cruden Bay, which just happens to be in the constituency of Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, also present for today's big unveiling, who must be delighted that he now has an "in" with News International. But rest assured Mr Salmond, Rupert is not known for his sentimentality.