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Gogszilla Returns (to the back benches) 342
We are not afraid 1,079
Alert readers will remember that Gordon Brown, who is apparently some sort of former politician, has recently been spreading the completely baseless scare story that Scots would no longer receive organ transplants or blood transfusions from other people in the UK (and vice versa) in the event of independence.
On Friday night, before the Orange Order marched in the streets of Edinburgh with “NO POPERY” banners, a young woman with a life-limiting illness called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency climbed the face of Edinburgh Castle with oxygen strapped to her back and tubes up her nose. (The only cure for A1AD is a double lung transplant.)
This is what she did there.
And then my heart went boom 290
The picture the BBC chose to illustrate events in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street today:
At the last gasp 133
We apologise for any images conjured by that headline.
Above is our Chris Cairns cartoon from June 2013. And here’s today’s news.
Something in reserve 81
*Readers! Meet Chris in person next Thursday as part of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio. Tickets are FREE but you need to book in advance. – Ed.