SECOND TIME EVEN LUCKIER

You heard it here first. Andrew Bachell is to resign from his post as Director of Conservation for the National Trust for Scotland. Andrew (indeterminate age) wasn’t available for comment but Clachnacuddin understands that he’s just a little unhappy as the NTS lurches from sad crisis to the next. But before you whip out a fiver for the going away present, don’t bother because Andrew’s been here before – he resigned under the previous regime and then trotted off to Scottish Natural Heritage and was paid by the taxpayer for a year or two before Mark (I was a wheel in RBS) Adderley coaxed him back to the NTS. Even then, there was a little bit of confusion – staff at SNH were told it was a short secondment. Define ‘short’. Anyway, off you go Andrew. Bet Trevor Croft if laughing his socks off!