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HE’S been seen on screen pulling pints in Still Game’s Clansman bar and played a rapist in River City, but its his latest role which Frank Gilhooley is relishing. The actor, whose latest film, Betrayal, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is now taking centre stage as an author.  Having been teaching acting masterclasses for sometime and helping people dig deep to deliver an emotional and genuine performance, Gilhooley extended the classes to anyone interested in helping th...

South Africas first Covid-19 vaccines, that will land on Monday, wont be barcoded, as the Health Department said they would be, making it easier for criminals to steal them.   The AstraZeneca jabs will be given to health workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.  If the country adopts a security system called GS1, which it considered in 2017, it would make it significantly easier to prevent vaccine theft and f...

• Movies return this weekend to the Robins Theatre with the cult favorite “The Big Lebowski.” The Joel and Ethan Coen film wasn’t a commercial hit when it came out in 1998. It earned less than $20 million in theaters. And following the acclaim for the Coen brothers’ “Fargo,” its critical reception was muted. Rotten Tomatoes shows its score at 83 percent positive, but that’s mostly using reviews posted in recent years. Back in 1998, I gave it a B but called it “second-tier ...

South Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo on Monday, 1 February, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals. The 1 million AstraZeneca shots, produced by and procured from the Serum Institute of India, will be given to frontline healthcare workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.  The Serum Institute and South Africa’s Depar...

Lost and found CONFUSED chanteuse Amy Macdonald has noticed there’s a new show on ITV called Finding Alice and another one on Apple TV called Losing Alice. “I think I need to know more about Alice before I choose which one to watch,” says a sensibly cautious Amy. Handy phrase A RECENT Herald article about mittens reminds reader Jean Waters of the time she was talking to an Aberdonian friend about woolly handwarmers. Jean referred to mittens as poccies. “Poccies?” said her fr...

PREMIUM Plumbing and punning go together, notes reader Jean Park who noticed this sign on a plumber’s van in Ayr. Potty about plants HOME-BASED hobbies are the happening thing, with plant growing particularly popular. In the past this meant chucking some water in the general direction of a clay pot, then forgetting about it until those frisky shoots and leaves turned dry and crumbly, like an Egyptian mummy who’s mislaid its tube of moisturising cream. But with most people trapped at h...

Those protectors of the forest, “Wood Patrol,” now are killing trees as part of a new print publication, Stank! magazine. “Wood Patrol,” the story of

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Call to get a statue up in Perth for much-loved actor Andy Gray Tributes have been paid to the writer and actor who kept a lifelong loyalty to Perth. Updated Scottish actor and panto star Andy Gray had recently beaten Leukemia and was thinking of working again on River City (Image: SUNDAY MAIL) Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the informatio...

RUTH Davidson was quick enough to demand an explanation from the First Minister as to why Scotland had a lower vaccination rate than England, and refused to accept her explanation; however she made no attempt to explain why England had decided to leave the time-consuming vaccination of care home residents until the AstraZeneca vaccine became available. The English government is required by law to follow the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommendations. Why did it...