I just want to add- I was not blaming Douglas for posting the story- but the very first thing i noted when I read the story was the date - I was puzzled at why an 8 year old story was being referenced, was all, and so I queried whether something recently had happened to update the story, because the implication of the rest of the story was that this was a happening story. In fact its 8 years old,with nothing new to report, and only caught Douglas's eye I assume because it was top of the list of the "most viewed" stories in The Scotsman.
Then Douglas gets all defensive and sarcastic/ insulting over nothing, as far as I can see, so I am not going to drop it then ;) Why not just acknowledge the fact that is was an old story and move on?
But as far as the story itself is concerned - it is a storm in a teacup -it was then, and it most certainly is now, 8 years on and many balls of tumbleweed later.