As you were all so delighted by the Duke of Wellington and his golden traffic cone I thought you might also like this rather fabulous necklace designed by quirky Glaswegian jewellery company Bonnie Bling. Isn't it splendid? :) In fact Bonnie Bling do a whole range of traffic cone jewellery featuring the Duke, which is appropriately called ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember the Conegate scandal that hit Glasgow last year, when the City Council announced plans to prevent well lubricated Glaswegians from adorning the Duke of Wellington with his traditional traffic cone headgear. It's just as well that the council backed down, because look at the old boy now! The London Olympics may have had ( Read more... )

I was working in Edinburgh yesterday and when I returned to Glasgow late in the afternoon I discovered that the city had been rocked by a civic crisis of unparalleled dimensions*. Glasgow City Council had announced it would take measures to prevent vandalism of an A-listed statue of the Duke of Wellington which stands outside the Modern Art Gallery ( Read more... )

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