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Who remembers the days of the stairheid cludgie? For the common folk, the cludgie was a communal affair. The landings and half landings of tenement stairs became the lair of the loo, shared between up to six families. Read more ‘She could change a room with a blink’: Scots star of original Mamma Mia! dies Myra McFadyen, who has died aged 68, was an actress who brought a mercurial mix of lightness and depth to her work on stage and screen. I tried James McAvoy's favourite Glasgow restaurant - and I have to admit I loved it Smokey Trotters Kitchen in Glasgow's east end is the restaurant that James McAvoy, yeah the big-time movie guy, called upon to cater for his new production. New Wolf Hall is like being at a very expensive, if gloomy, wedding reception The Wolf Hall cinematography was a little too atmospheric, (all shot in natural, or candle light) which created an expensive wedding venue atmosphere. And at one point the imperial ambassador and Cromwell have a meeting during a thunderstorm, which should have resulted in the director being placed on the cliché naughty step for a few hours. I was entranced by new Scottish exhibition of Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer and Van Dyck Dominating the end wall of the first room of Dürer To Van Dyck, a new exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, is a photograph, blown up so it reaches from floor to ceiling. Taken around 1890, it shows the South Sketch Gallery at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, seat since 1549 of the aristocratic Cavendish family whose scions include the current 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish. Thank goodness for music and football (and Our Price records) in these dark days Our Price, the record chain, was the subject of this week’s business show Toast on Radio 4. Tam Shepherd's last vanishing act: Farewell to Glasgow's cave of magic and laughter Norry Wilson of Lost Glasgow steps into the city's 'emporium of childish delights, and pure devilment' and reflects on what may be a last goodbye for a Glaswegian institution.

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