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The Red Scare 43

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Bring it on 23

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Call the fire brigade 35

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After the watershed 86

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…and Hell followed with him 20

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(And finally… #26)

horsemen

If only someone would come and free us from the burden of these terrible riches.

The jungle VIP 39

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For all the staggeringly impressive total to date, fewer than 500 of our 30,000+ readers have currently donated even a single £1 to our fundraising campaign. If you’re one of the other 29,500 – and statistically you almost certainly are – there’s a certain lion who wants a wee word with you this morning.

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Illuminating the debate 23

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And finally… #5 67

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Because sometimes the story at the end of the news is just a nice feelgood one.

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Bull Bridge 83

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We’re unimaginably thrilled to bring you our very first ever official Wings Over Scotland cartoon, composed and drawn by regular reader and commenter Chris Cairns.

We feel like a proper grown-up newspaper now.

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