Bad Medicine at the Beeb Alan Taylor's Diary

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IT is my sad duty to report that my old chum, Bob Wylie, BBC's Scotland's intrepid reporter, has lost his long battle to retain his sanity. Mr Wylie, whose idiosyncratic delivery is the subject of much envy within broadcasting circles, last week turned up for a regular news conference dressed not in his usual apparel - Slater's best - but in a nurse's uniform, looking a dead ringer for Barbara Windsor in Carry On Up The Speculum, including Wonderbra, stockings and suspenders. "The full bhuna, " as the man himself brazenly boasted.

Needless to say, Mr Wylie's boss, Blair Jenkins, who is used to weirdos parading around Queen Margaret Drive, did not bat an eyelid, though surely even he was tempted to call for psychiatric back-up. Mr Wylie claims that it was all in the cause of Children In Need - a likely story. It could, however, conceivably have been worse. It could have been Brian Taylor. Mind you, Taylor himself was spotted - allegedly also in the cause of charity - resplendent in black leather jumpsuit, studs and medallion, and looking not unlike Tom Jones gone to seed.

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Bad Medicine at the Beeb Alan Taylor's Diary

Level of political debate is pants

WUMMIN'S Hour invited two nearly men on to talk about their underpants. David "HokeyCokey" Cameron and David "Ducky" Davis, who are slogging it out to become leader of the Dodos, were happy to discuss what they had on under their trousers, in the full knowledge that John Major's Y-fronts could not easily be eclipsed in the public's affection. Du...

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