Pure Dead Brilliant (Pure Dead, 3)

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City Lights was a classic 80s/early 90s Scottish ensemble comedy that is certainly fondly remembered in Scotland and rightly so. On 17 March 1977, a British Airtours Boeing 707 crashed during a pilot training flight and caught fire. All four crew on board survived. [50] Carrell, Severin (7 February 2018). "Scottish government criticised over US military use of airport". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018 . Retrieved 8 February 2018. Since 2007, the airport has occasionally been used by the BBC TV programme Top Gear as the location for various stunts and experiments. The best-known stunt was a scene similar to one featured in the film Casino Royale and featured both a Ford Mondeo and a Citroën 2CV parked behind the engines of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400, in an experiment to investigate whether the thrust from the aircraft's four jet engines really could lift a car off the ground. [22]

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The chronicles follow the Strega Borgias, a quirky, bizarre, Italian family: Signor and Signora Strega-Borgia (Luciano and Baci) and their four children, Titus, Pandora, Damp and Nieve, who live with their mythical companions in their fictitious home StregaSchloss, in Argyll. It consists of two trilogies: Pure Dead and Deep. The Strega-Borgias share similarities to The Addams Family.Ryanair launches new Dublin-Glasgow International route". Ryanair (Press release). 3 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.

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Kerry oot: Carry out. Generally refers to buying alcohol from an off licence, but can also mean take-away food. The revived Scottish International Airshow was first held on 6 and 7 September 2014; an air display was held at the Low green at Ayr Seafront and a static display on 7 September at the airport. [45] The event included appearances by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, including the only two flying Avro Lancaster bombers, and the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber, famous for being part of the UK's Nuclear "V Force" bomber fleet. The second Scottish Airshow was held on 5 and 6 September 2015. [46] Scottish Airshow to return in September after 22-year absence". STV News. 21 May 2014. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014 . Retrieved 13 December 2014. Latch – Long suffering butler to the Borgias. He answers the door and the phone. Latch often irons the newspaper. He falls in love with Miss McClachlan and eventually marries her. It is also mentioned that he is forced to wear a kilt made out of material used as a dog's bed, and hates it because it itches. Owns a small Japanese car. Square go: Someone who is asking you to fight them will ask for a square go. The question would simply be phrased “Square go?!?”

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Although from very different eras and set-ups essentially the large collection of characters and sharp put-downs are similar in spirit to the more recent and also much loved Still Game. And asides from the main cast members (mostly stalwarts of Naked Video and Rab C Nesbitt) there were all sort of guest appearances from 'faces' of the Scottish comedy and general acting fraternity, not least Billy Connolly. Strega-Nonna (Amelia) - Cryogenically preserved six-times-great grandmother of Titus, Pandora, Damp and Nieve. She was an extremely powerful witch in her time and retains some of her power. She lives in the freezer where she lives in cryogenic preservation until science finds a cure for death and old age. This is treated as a matter of humour during most of the series but Sab considers her desperation to evade death sad as shown by his existentialist brodding in Deep Trouble. Strega-Nonna's cryogenic preservation is somewhat contradicted by the fact that witches are portrayed as immortal in the series. She may have known Mrs McLachlan as a child.

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Mrs Flora McLachlan – Nanny to Titus, Pandora, Damp and Nieve. A gifted, and ancient witch who sometimes secretly helps Baci out with her spells. She is famous for her cooking skills especially with cakes and chips. A vengeful demon is trying to invade StregaSchloss. However, Titus is too busy on the internet looking up the world destroying company SapienTech, Pandora only has eyes for the gorgeous (and pyromaniac) new butler temporarily replacing Latch and the beasts are raising funds to give the moat a makeover by volunteering for medical science. Only Flora McLachlan has noticed and is doing something about it! Deep Water [ edit ]On October 28, 2010, everyone mourned the tragic death of Gerard Kelly. Kelly was a fine character actor who could go from being hysterically funny to deadly serious at the drop of a hat. On New Year's Eve that same year, BBC1 screened a tribute dedicated to him entitled 'Gerard Kelly: A Celebration', which featured interviews with his family and friends, as well as clips from his best television performances including 'EastEnders', 'The Slab Boys', 'Donal & Sally' and, of course, the one he is probably most famous for, 'City Lights', in which he played 'Billy Liar' type fantasist Willie Melvin. 'City Lights' was Kelly's first regular comedy series. It was also the first sitcom made by Scotland since 'The Vital Spark'. Signor Luciano Strega-Borgia - The sometimes hot-tempered husband of Baci and father of Titus, Pandora, Damp and Nieve. He is very fond of his family, despite leaving them in a temper in the first book and frequently arguing with Baci. Enjoys coffee, especially cappuccino. Thousands welcome return of Scottish Airshow to Ayrshire". BBC News. 7 September 2014. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014 . Retrieved 13 December 2014. Aside from Mrs McLachlan, many immortal characters appear in the series due to its nature as fantasy. The arch-villains of the series are demons who seek possession of the Chronostone with which they will be able to rule the universe. The Chronostone once belonged to the ruler of Hell, S'tan the Boss but he lost it and the main plot of the series concerns his quest to regain it by sending various minions to do battle with Mrs McLachlan for possession of the Stone. Mrs McLachlan is the only person aware of the threat posed by the demons although Titus, Pandora and Latch become aware of them. The demons are portrayed as extremely powerful and irredeemably evil creatures but are nonetheless used to great comic effect. Most demons in the series are cynical, egotistical and cruel but with a dry sense of humour. Bosses have started to pull down gawdy purple lettering and designs from the terminal as part of a decision to overhaul the image of the business.

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Nieve (a.k.a. "little no name" or "somebody else entirely") - The new baby and younger son of the Borgias' Nieve was born in the beginning of the last book. It is implied Nieve may be as powerful a magus as his sister Damp. Nieve has a salamander familiar called Orynx. He apparently has dark brown eyes (as revealed through his internal monologues in Deep Water). **REVISION**: Though in Deep Fear (the last book) Nieve's eyes are continuously referred to as navy blue. However, this is not to be confused with the green eyes of the demon baby/changeling that takes Nieve's place with Baci for most of the book. As for Nieve being a magus, the reader is left with the suggestion that he may instead be an earthbound (or fallen angel) when Damp notices that he has fine downy feathers like angel wings around his shoulders. This is reinforced when Damp motions to Nieve that she has noticed and will keep the 'secret.' However, it is also suggested that the feathers COULD be left over from the Swan transformation. Unfortunately, we never find out for sure and the reader is left wondering as to which it is. Top Gear (30 April 2010). Car vs Boeing 747 Engine. YouTube. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 . Retrieved 30 December 2015. In February 2021, the Scottish government announced that a preferred bidder had been selected to buy the airport. The unnamed bidder was believed to be a European transport infrastructure investor. [34] Don Lucifer di S'Embowelli Borgia - Luciano's evil half-brother. Don Lucifer hates his brother and often tries to kill him. He is a high player in the Mafia. Don Lucifer has had plastic surgery on his face, to reduce the size of his nose. Unfortunately, it went wrong and made him look and sound, like a rat. Don Lucifer serves as one of the main antagonists of the series. In Pure Dead Brilliant he inherits millions, signed over to him by Titus (originally inherited from his grandfather, Don Chimera) Multitudina the Illiterat - An illiterate rat who 'was raised to eat books, not read them'. She is a free-range rat and one of Pandora's many pets. Multitudina has an intelligent daughter named Terminus.It has been announced that the airshow will return for 2023 being rebranded as The International Ayrshow - Festival Of Flight beginning on the weekend of 8 September 2023. [47] Incidents and accidents [ edit ] Now is a time of opportunity and potential – there is a massive shift in culture at the moment – and creating the right brand is a huge part of that.”