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be guaranteed the receiver wid be lifted up at the other end.  He pulled open the phone box door tae be greeted by the waft ae stale pish.  The phone rang at the other end fur four rings before he wis able tae push the ten pence coin fully intae the greedy slot.
      “Hello?” a known voice rasped suspiciously.
      “It’s me…Robert,” he stammered, failing tae contain that excitement ae his.
      “Whit hiv a Ah telt ye aboot names, fur Christ’s sake?” the voice at the other end snarled.
      “Oh, right, er, sorry, sorry, Ah furgoat,” he stammered.
      “So, whit hiv ye goat then?” the voice finally asked efter a wee pause.
      “A live wan,” he squealed, squeezing his knees thegither, feeling his jeans tighten against his hard-on.
    Silence.
      “How fresh?” the voice oan the line finally asked.
      “Fresh…as in fresh.”
      “Hiv ye touched her?”
      “Er, naw,” he replied hesitantly.
      “Is it the wan that’s been oan the news?”
      “Aye.”
      “His she been getting some water?”
      “Aye, alang wae some breid.”
      “Okay.  Right, Ah’ll ask ye again.  Hiv ye touched her?”
      “Naw…well…jist a wee quick feeling up.”
      “Right, well, listen up and listen good.  Stay away fae that bitch until we arrive.  Hiv ye goat that noo?”
      “Er, right, aye, fine.”
      “Good.  Ye’ve done well, so ye hiv.  Ah’m right pleased wae ye.  We’ll meet at the same place as the last time before heiding up thegither.  Don’t be late,” the voice oan the other end said before the line went deid. 
     

 
      “Good evening.  My name is John Turney and these are the news headlines in Scotland tonight.
      Blinding Snow and strong winds are hampering efforts to find the BEA Viscount airplane that disappeared off the radar yesterday after taking off from Glasgow Airport for routine operational purposes.  Police and rescue teams have been scouring the countryside near Aberfoyle and Balquhidder in the Trossaches…  
      An eighteen-year-old youth has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the disappearance and murder of fourteen-year-old Ann Brown on the 9 th of November 1972.  Robert Connor lived with his elderly widowed mother on the edge of the village of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, where the teenager disappeared last year.  Despite the schoolgirl’s body having never being found, a jury in the High Court in Glasgow unanimously found Connor guilty after only forty minutes deliberation today.  There will be more on this story later in the programme…
      Also in the North Court of the same building, eighteen-year-old James Baxter was found guilty and sentenced to be detained in a young offenders institution for nine years by Lord Campbell of Claremyle, for his part in a bank robbery at the Clydeside Bank on Maryhill Road on the 9 th of November last year, in which two police officers were blasted with a double-barrelled shotgun…
    Police have uncovered a horde of weapons including shotguns, Second World War rifles and handguns and what is believed to be a small amount of explosives in a house in Bridgeton.  The building was evacuated by the Fire Brigade and residents had to hang about in a nearby orange hall for five hours whilst bomb disposal experts arrived on the scene…
      A twenty-two-year-old man, who was found to be dead on arrival at Glasgow’s Western Infirmary after being slashed in the neck on the corner of Garscube Road and Possil Road last night, has been named as Timothy McPherson. Another unnamed youth, who was later released from the hospital for the affects of shock, has been ruled out as a suspect in the murder. Local Possilpark Inspector Duggie Dougan has appealed for any witnesses to contact…
      Another post office was held up in Burmulloch in the north of the city, the second in two weeks, with a substantial amount of money stolen.  No one appeared to be hurt in the incident.  Springburn Police