THIS description of Glasgow speech has stood the test of time. The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) describes it as a “Jocular way of referring to Glasgow speech, coined by Stanley Baxter as ...

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When Stanley Baxter Met Alan Cumming Saturday, BBC2, 8.15pm It put Ian Rankin in the pub with Jack Vettriano, Karen Dunbar in a nostalgic haze with Denise Minah and Bobby Gillespie in the back of a ...

1. Stanley started his show-business career as a child actor under the instruction of his extrovert mother. He did impressions of Harry Lauder and Mae West, aged 7, without knowing who either of them ...

The Glasgow Skyline, Nearly ten per cent of First Glasgow's drivers are foreign, with 90 overseas staff based at one depot alone. Credit: Photo: Visit Scotland In a move reminiscent of the "Parliamo ...

Scummindooninbuckets! To the untrained ear, it sounds like an unwieldy mash of vowels and consonants, but anyone from the Dear Green Place will know its meaning only too well, especially during a ...

Puzzled Polish bus drivers learn to Parliamo Glasgow VETERAN comic Stanley Baxter was famous for his Parliamo Glasgow sketches, but trying to understand the city’s patter is no joke for Polish bus ...

Actor and comedian Stanley Baxter has won an outstanding contribution award, Bafta Scotland has announced. The 94-year-old will be presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television ...

Lovely to meet you! And thanks for posting your first blog. Like everyone who's been reading your blog, I'm looking forward to learning more about the woman who's Russian but who spends almost all her ...