EMRYS Inker, head of media relations at distiller Edrington, is soon to grace our television screens - well, the views from his garden are anyway.

Returning home from work one evening recently, Inker discovered that producers from Scottish Television's hit detective series Taggart were searching out locations for episodes.

In particular, they were looking for gardens with stunning views over Glasgow.

The Welsh Wizard's home at Burnside, on the south side of the city, proved so ideal that the

programme makers came back a few days later to do some filming.

However, Inker was not quite sure what they made of the placard that a next door neighbour had made and stuck in an adjoining garden, bearing the legend: "There's been a murder''.

The flight of the not so humble BA

WISECRACKING British Airways executives fended off investor criticism about the airline's recent performance at the company's annual meeting this week.

Departing chairman Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge was enjoying his last couple of hours in the limelight and managed to keep the mood jolly despite the usual complaints from grey-haired shareholders regarding the absence of lunch and the meagre liquid refreshments.

Long-serving Marshall, who headed BA for 21 years, said the lack of lunch demonstrated what passengers could expect from no-frills airlines - the discount carriers such as easyJet and Ryanair - that have snaffled customers from BA's short-haul European routes.

Rod Eddington, chief executive, joined in the banter, proclaiming: ''We like to call them no-service airlines.''

Perhaps sensing an opportunity to mark the card of new chairman Martin Broughton, Eddington later fawningly piled the plaudits on his outgoing colleague, telling Marshall: ''You are a legend in your own lifetime.''

Pass the sick bag.

Money talks, but finally pauses for breath

AFTER an exhaustive, and some might say exhausting, opening submission spanning six months, lawyers for the liquidators of BCCI finally stepped aside to this week let the Bank of England's counsel

begin its defence against claims of misfeasance.

Gordon Pollock QC, acting for liquidators Deloitte Touche, has been over every dotted i and crossed t in what has been one of the longest opening submissions in British legal history.

So, it was not surprising that there were a few audible sighs of relief emanating from the other side of the court.

As defence counsel ambled into Court 73 in London's High Court on Monday morning, a clerk saluted them with the slightly weary, faux Big-Brother greeting: ''Day 87''.

To which one of the barristers from City firm Freshfields, rejoicing, answered: ''It's wonderful. Finally, the truth.''

Or at least, another version of it.

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