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Byline: RODDY MARTINE

AS the Scottish Episcopal Church's general synod debates women bishops, the Bishop of Edinburgh, the Most Rev Richard Holloway, has expressed his regrets that no women bishops will have been created before he retires this year.

'It is illogical to have women priests but not women bishops,' he says.

Certainly the vestments are available. One is reminded of the comment made by an eminent Hollywood film star following an Episcopalian High Church service.

'Loved the gown, dear,' she told the priest. 'But did you know your handbag was on fire?'

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MINISTER for Enterprise Henry McLeish has stressed it is a matter for the company's board and individual policyholders to decide on whether insurance giant Standard Life should retain mutual status. In the meantime, the rash of posters and banners on the company's buildings has been causing some confusion. Some uninformed locals are under the impression that the bold 'Use your vote, vote no' slogans are part of Brian Souter's Clause 28 campaign.

Others, because of the strident, blue lettering, are assuming it has something to do with the Tory party's policy on Europe.

THE late Dame Barbara Cartland, right, insisted she wanted to be remembered not for wearing pink, but for campaigning for gypsy children to be educated and for new mothers to be paid to stay home. But the pink imagery lives on in the Timespan Heritage Centre at Helmsdale, Sutherland, where she took her holidays and at La Mirage, a Helmsdale restaurant, owned by Nancy Sinclair and run by her son John. The decor is predictably pink, and when the Gucci New items Replica dame would drop in, Nancy would dress in matching shades. 'Her spirit lives on,' said John. 'We shall be keeping everything just as it is.'

LISTED in this month's Tatler magazine, under the most sought after invitations in Scotland, are David Fox-Pitt and Toby Trustram Eve. What the glossy fails to explain is how the two friends achieved this status. Not only are they behind the current spate of major social events in Perthshire, including the Scottish Community Foundation's Caledonian Challenge 2000 walk, which takes place this month, but they have also taken over Edinburgh's Reel Club. This initiates novices in Scottish country dancing.

Not so successful was a recent attempt to initiate a volleyball session in Holy-rood Park. With heavy rain, the venue was rapidly transferred to Pizza Express.

COMMENTING on
embroidered patches the unveiling of the fully restored Botticelli painting, The Virgin Adoring The Sleeping Christ Child, in Glasgow yesterday, National Galleries of Scotland director Timothy Clifford observed: 'Those who swooned over it before it was restored will have the opportunity to swoon over it again.' One cannot help wondering why an intensely religious picture such as this should provoke such a reaction. Perhaps it was the [pounds sterling]10.5million it cost to acquire.

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