East Lothian Conservative, George Gray, has suggested the golfers at Gullane and other county courses should be taxed £5 a game every time they tee off. “I gather at least 500,000 players use East Lothian links to enjoy themselves. This would raise £2.5 million for the local authority to spend on useful things like social workers, probation officers and youth welfare work. Tax should be a redistributive device. Golfers are affluent and middle class. We should cream money off them to give to the poorer members of our community or at least those professionals who derive their salaries from working with the lower orders,” he told our reporter. Mr Gray admits his notion was not well received by his fellow Conservatives on the council but insists people value more what they pay for. “To be politically correct I suppose I should suggest a 15 euro tee-off tax,” he suggested. “I am a one-nation Conservative.”
East Lothian News
An organic artefact excavated at the classic mesolithic site in Scotland that has long baffled archaeologists has been identified by biologists at the Royal Museum of Scotland. The item was dug up at Skara Brae on Orkney 30 years ago and lay in the Skail House Collection until it was sent to Edinburgh for analysis. It turns out to be the penis bone of an Atlantic walrus. Scottish Natural Heritage, who have been opposed to the walrus being brought back to the shores of Scotland, insisted it was a holiday joke in doubtful taste and that no mammals have bones in their penises. Alison Sheridan, head of the museum forensic service, reprimanded SNH sharply. Most mammals have penile bones. Homo sapiens is the only primate not to have these bones.
Inverness Courier
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