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The Proclaimers have never been cool, but they have somehow stuck around for two decades. Now a play based on the Reid brothers' unique sound is to open next year. Paul Kelbie reports on a pair of Scottish legends
Published: 22 December 2006
Even in 1987, they couldn't be classed as cool. But in spite of their geeky looks, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid shot to musical fame when they appeared on Channel 4's iconic music programme The Tube wearing spectacles and singing "Letter from America" in Scottish accents so thick they could be cut with a knife.
By
Pete McKenna
For Kenny Richey, the innocent Scot on Death Row, the only reason to look forward to another Christmas day in Mansfield Correctional Institution in Ohio, is the knowledge, that for now, no date for his state sponsored death has been announced.Kenny has asked me to wish each of his supporters a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2007.
Well done ... now free the Scot on death row
Guest Vocals: Karen Torley
I am delighted to see that Briton Mirza Tahir Hussain has at last been released after 18 years on death row in Pakistan.
Here I can only applaud the decision of Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf to use his discretionary powers to commute Hussain's death sentence on humanitarian grounds.
Hussain's life for the past 18 years has surely been torture. He went to Pakistan all those years ago to visit family and ended up in some sort of hell.
By Liam McDougall
DEATH-row Scot Kenny Richey has made a personal plea to the newly elected Democrat governor of Ohio in a last-ditch bid for clemency.
Richey, who has been on death row in the state for almost 20 years, has written to Ted Strickland asking him to intervene against his conviction for the murder of a two-year-old in a house fire in 1986. Strickland secured victory in the state over Republican Bob Taft in the US midterm elections last week.