A big thanks to Marguerite Zelle who has posted a review of my blog on the The Kindle Blog Report with TARDIS Newsroom (science fiction, Dr. Who), also I'd like to take the opportunity to welcome all our new twitter users who now follow me (Doctor_No1) and thanks to all who have taken the time to re-tweet some of my posts.guardian.co.uk has a video Steven Moffat - 'Matt Smith is like a young man built by old men from memory', he talks about the casting process for the new series and getting Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.Digital Spy has...Moffat: 'No Daleks in next Who series', he will only include The Daleks in Doctor Who's next series if there is a suitable story.Live blog: 'Doctor Who' Masterclass, our live coverage of the Doctor Who session at MGEITF.Daily Mail has Karen Gillan looks...

From The Scotsman:AN SNP activist has been expelled from the party for suggesting a Labour supporter who died from a heart attack was a drug addict.Alan Clayton had hinted that local government worker Danus McKinlay, a Labour activist and close friend of former Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell, was a crack cocaine user.The SNP has expelled Mr Clayton over the comments. However,...

Click on auto-refresh for all the latest action. Email your thoughts to andy.bull@guardian.co.uk and follow the match onthe sly19th over: England 79-1 (Strauss 44 Trott 13) Kaneria floats up what will almost certainly be the worst delivery of the entires series, a looping chest-high wide full toss, which Trott, despite his surprise, manages to smear away to mid-wicket. The acute embarrassment Kaneria feels after offering up such filth provokes him into following up with a fierce leg break, which pitches on middle and rips past Trott's dangling bat. "Perhaps Matthew in Howdon could clamp his hands over his ears and grimace after every conversation with this Steven character and use half a bottle of hand gel every time he picks anything up from his desk," writes Alex Walsh, "I've been doing...

The Doctor Who News Page has Richard Shaw 1920 - 2010, he had three appearances in Doctor Who. In 1965 he played the role of Lobos, the Morok governor of Xeros, in the William Hartnell story The Space Museum. He returned to the series in 1973 working with Jon Pertwee on the story Frontier in Space where he played Cross the leader of a section of the prisoners at the Lunar Penal Colony. His final role in the series was in the 1978 story Underworld, where he played Lakh, a Seer on the planet which coalesced around the P7E.io9 has How I learned to love the Doctor's dashing lady-friend, River Song, the central enigma of Doctor Who's very first episode wasn't the Doctor himself — it was a 15-year-old girl. So Steven Moffat was returning the show to its roots when he introduced the mysterious...

Doctor Who - Series 5, Volume 3 (draft) Cover, pre order from the TARDIS Shop.BBC Doctor Who Adventures (Blog) has It's DWA day...Wow, what an exciting week - the Doctor's stuck in the Pandorica, the TARDIS has just exploded, Rory is back (as living plastic), we've announced our DWA awards, yesterday we received the first copies of our incredible 3-D DWA collector's edition and TODAY issue 172 is out in shops near you!Free with the latest issue is an amazing projector torch - you can shine the TARDIS, the Doctor Who logo, a Weeping Angel and a Dalek on to your bedroom wall. Get yours now!Waiting for you inside the mag is Matt Smith's exclusive diary on filming The Lodger, a quiz on last week's excellent episode, a brand-new page full of jokes and fun stuff, the World Cup Monster Squad...

ReelScotland has Interview: Neve McIntosh, ....caught up with Paisley-born actress Neve McIntosh for a conversation about her career, including The Doctor, Brit-horror Salvage, Gormenghast and romping in front of the Little Britain boys.Giant Gnome Productions has released DWLTL – The Ouroboros Project Part 4, in this episode the Professor talks about releasing a world wide virus and The Doctor has a slight problem with this.The Krynoid Podcast has 008: The Visitation, yes, after all this Matt Smith mullarky, Jim & Martin have gone retro and taken a gander at the 1982 Peter Davison story, The Visitation.io9 has The mind-bending cartography of the TARDIS, Congratulations! You're the proud new owner of a TARDIS! But how do you find your way around the blasted thing?BBC iPlayer (UK...

Gallifreyan Embassy has Join Us for the Gallifreyan Embassy & Doctor Who: Podshock May 2010 Second Life Meet Up, it's our spring Second Life meet up and what better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Gallifreyan Embassy. Come together with other Doctor Who and Torchwood fans no matter where you are geographically located, all you need is broadband internet and a computer capable of running the free Second Life software.TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...Doctor Who Confidential episode 4 - Angels dancing Time of Angels - Return of River Song Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - City of the Daleks Doctor Who Adventure Games Clip Doctor Who Confidential S05E04 Eyes Wide Open Next Time Trailer The Doctor Who Project has Stop the noise, find out how to stop the noise by downloading...

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...Doctor Who Step Back In Time The Space Museum, this week's Step Back in Time comes from the episode that premiered exactly 45 years to the day before The Time of Angels. We've chosen a striking clip from the 1965 adventure The Space Museum which featured the First Doctor, played by William Hartnell.Doctor Who The Adventure Games Launch In Sheffield (Images)Hands of Omega TARDISes Video 2, the second of two instruction videos for the hands of omega console range in Second Life, building working TARDIS console in the Second Life doctor who community.British Board of Film Censors has... DOCTOR WHO - THE ELEVENTH HOUR [Season 5, Episode 1] passed PG.DOCTOR WHO - THE DOMINATORS [Additional material, DVD Extras] passed U.DOCTOR WHO - THE DOMINATORS [Additional...

The downfall of Steven Purcell, Labour’s disgraced former head of Glasgow council has opened up the lid on the rank corruption at the heart of the Labour Party. Three of their MPs are on trial and Purcell is now being investigated by the police for Class A drug use and “other matters”, namely to do with his alleged flogging of council contracts to his criminal mates. The Scottish coppers have started interviewing his Labour colleagues over their business deals and drugs links. Further to that the candidate selected to replace Jim Devine has been reported to the police by his own council boss for alleged offences under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act. Perhaps they could share a cell. Despite being repeatedly asked on television and in the House, Gordon is...

I have for some weeks been regaling southern readers with the hitherto hidden tales of corruption, lies, graft, drug taking and gangsterism in the murky depths of Labour’s Glasgow heartlands. It has seemed a fruitless task at times. The Scottish newspapers have been terminally reticent in their reports of the efforts made by the SNP – John Mason, SNP for Glasgow East, in particular had been calling for Audit Scotland to dip their toe in the muddy waters surrounding City Building, one of the many ‘arms length’  companies set up by the snowy white Steven Purcell, which had hugely benefited Willie Haughey – a Labour donor to the tune of £11 million, a figure coincidentally identical to the donation made by Unite to the Labour Party. Now quite unexpectedly, from...

Glasgow City Council may have shied clear of investigating contracts drawn up by Steven Purcell but all is not quiet on that score. One of Steven’s network of gay friends is under the microscope at this moment. The Major Crimes and Terrorism group is investigating how Ruth Black, a recent convert to Labour, managed to leave her position as manager of the lesbian and gay drop-in Castro centre a mere six months before it went bankrupt for £300,000 and then remerge as head of the phoenix like new Castro centre – again a drop in centre for gay and lesbians with guaranteed funding of £50,000 a year from a committee chaired by Steven Purcell. Ruth Black, a Glasgow City Councillor herself, appointment raised some eyebrows even amongst the gay community, since the £300,000...

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...Doctor Who Series 5 3-D TrailerMatt Smith on Blue Peter [31/03/10] Doctor Who Tour Bus - Day Two - Sunderland University The Doctor Interrupts Dave's Tedious Link [Radio Trailer] Doctor Who Series 5 Clip 5 (Blue Peter) BBC iPlayer (UK only) has Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, Mars, 2059. Bowie Base One. Last recorded message: 'Don't drink the water. Not one drop.'Doctor Who Reference Guide has the synopses for the Unbound audio Masters of War and the Torchwood novels Pack Animals, SkyPoint and Almost Perfect plus synopses for the BBC novels The Taking of Chelsea 426, Autonomy and Code of the Krilitanes, and the BBC audios The Day of the Troll and The Last Voyage. Big Finish have released Issue 14 of Vortex Magazine.BBC Press Office has Doctor Who –...

Former Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell says he used cocaine and admits this may have left him open to...

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has... Doctor Who - Series 5 [1] (BBC America Long Trailer). Dr.Who - Series 5 Trailer (spoof).Times Online has Steven Moffat - the new brains behind Doctor Who, as viewers prepare for Time Lord No 11 and a retooled Tardis, there is also a new man taking charge of the showScottish Daily Record has Scots star Neve McIntosh gets horror makeover for Doctor Who role, she will have a starring role in the long-awaited return of Doctor Who - but even her nearest and dearest might struggle to recognise her.WalesOnline has Dr Who: Smitten by the Doc in the Bay, next month he’ll go from being a relatively unknown actor to one of the most recognised faces on British TV. And, with his life-changing first appearance as the new Doctor Who due to hit our screens this Easter,...

Liberal Democrat Voice is very proud of its new How Authoritarian is your MP? website.With all due respect to Nick Clegg (may he live for ever) and Edward McMillan-Scott, the Lib Dem of the day is Anna Arrowsmith. Heresy Corner will tell you all about her.Liberal Burblings has the video of David Cameron's bad hair day.Don't bother asking Diamond Geezer, the sea-green incorruptible of London blogging, to promote your product.The strange case of Steven Purcell is explained by J. Arthur MacNumpty.Mike McSharry suggests that you visit the Harborough Museum on Saturday 20 March. Sensible man. I am not sure if that is him in the...

Image by Beau Bo D'OrWelcome one and all to the 262nd (or so) Britblog Roundup, bringing you the best in British blogging over the past week - fortnight, in this case. Plenty to get through, as ever, so let us begin.The big political stories this past couple of weeks have centred on an Englishman, a Scotsman and a - well, a Belizean, I guess. The passing of Michael Foot saw too many tributes to list even a representative sample here, but one of the best came from perhaps an unlikely source: Daniel Hannan - albeit with a couple of digs at his successors for good value.Devil's Kitchen was not quite in the same boat, penning an acerbic commentary on the "silly sod's" legacy. Zelo Street took the opportunity to tear DK a new one.The Scotsman is, of course, Steven Purcell, the erstwhile leader...

ToryDiary: The CBI and IoD back the Conservatives on early spending cutsAlso on ToryDiary: Boris Johnson's capitivating belief in human progress LeftWatch: No, Lord Mandelson, the unions have you by the balls and Labour pours another £11bn of poison into the wellsPeter Snowdon on Platform: The Conservatives may have come back from the brink of annihilation - but the party now faces the closest election battle in decades Local government: Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers Alliance suggests a rewards scheme for council staff who some up with efficiency saving ideas Also on Local government: Cllr David Meikle, a Conservative councillor on Glasgow City Council, reports on the resignation of the Labour council leader Steven Purcell follow a storm of allegations about chemical dependency and...

Whoever says  Scottish politics is dull might want to take a look at last week’s unravelling saga around Labour controlled Glasgow City Council. Who would have thought when Gordon visited a key ally two  Thursday’s ago that within a week, one of Scotland’s up and coming politicos would have attempted suicide, a police investigation would link the same man, Glasgow’s most senior politician, to major organised drug crime and an 18-year-old Labour activist would be end up dead outside the city’s Council Chambers. As ever Gordon is pulling a Macavity on this one. Steven Purcell was talked about as the saviour of the Scottish Labour Party, its brightest young star, he was tipped as a future First Minister.  However if Purcell ever wanted a return...

TROUBLED council chief Steven Purcell sensationally fled Scotland last night. He is jetting abroad to escape the pressure after a dramatic week which saw him quit as leader of Glasgow council. Sources close to Purcell said he won't return for up to a year. Earlier yesterday, Purcell followed up his decision to quit as £60,000-a-year leader of Scotland's biggest local authority by standing down as a councillor. Purcell spent some time at the Castle Craig rehab clinic in the Borders after he quit as council chief . He disappeared from the clinic on Sunday but turned up again soon afterwards. A source close to Purcell said: "Steven has always had an interest in the southern hemisphere and it is thought he might be spending some time...

The Scottish Press are running for the high ground. Articles are printed and pulled within hours. We now know that Steven Purcell was riding ‘high’ as befits a Labour high riser on Thursday night when he joined Gordon Brown at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow for dinner. Who knows what was on the menu? Who knows...

Glasgow council had been set to say that former leader Steven Purcell quit over a "chemical dependency", it...

The Curse of the One-Eyed Son of the Manse will not go away. Pharma big boys AstraZenca were very chuffed when Gordon welcomed their chairman as one of Britain’s Business Ambassadors three months ago. This was never going to go well. The smile was soon wiped off their face when Mr Ambassador fired 2,200 of his staff this week. The curse was particularly powerful in north of the border. Last Thursday Gordon shared the top table at a Labour Party fund-raiser in Glasgow with the leader of the council, the flamboyant “high-flyer” Steven Purcell.  Colleagues say he was buzzing at the party.  The next morning his career was over.  Purcell mysteriously cancelled meetings before eventually clearing his whole diary and promptly resigned citing “stress“. He then...

The former leader of Glasgow City Council, Steven Purcell, is recovering after treatment at a clinic in the...

First he said he was able to spot paedophiles by sight.Now the omnipotent Tory Bear is able to diagnose from London just what is wrong with Steven Purcell who stepped down as leader of Glasgow City Council today. If I wasn't hearing that he was hospitalised this evening at the same time that Tory Bear decided to be post his trash it probably wouldn't have got my attention.His claim that...

Glasgow must be an unbelievably stressful place to live and work. Then again, their politicians are not as tough as their popular image. Steven Purcell, the leader – or rather, ex-leader, of Glasgow City Council- so ‘alarmed’ members of his family when they visited him at the week-end, that they persuaded him to resign from his...

Hmmmm:The Labour leader of Scotland's biggest local authority, Glasgow City Council, has stepped down. Steven Purcell's resignation was announced at a special meeting of the council's Labour group.A spokesman for the 37-year-old, who has led the local authority for almost five years, said he was suffering from stress and exhaustion. [...]His spokesman, Jack Irvine said the former leader had been "under enormous pressure".He added: "Steven agreed to seek medical help immediately and subsequently he is now under doctor's orders. He would hope to get back in to active politics in the next few weeks and months. He hopes the people of Glasgow will appreciate what he has tried to do for the city he loves."Glasgow City Council has been contacted by lawyers representing Mr Purcell and have agreed...

On the eve of his new ENO production of Turandot, Rupert Goold explains the joys of giving Puccini's great unfinished opera an endingLucy Prebble, outrageously talented, outrageously young, rings me to ask when we will be able to work in the cuts and dialogue changes she has made since our production of her play Enron opened at the Royal Court in London. Despite the show's success, she's keen to make changes before we transfer to the Noel Coward theatre in January. I say I'll see what I can do, but right now I have to further correct the final act of my own adaptation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, showing at the Bristol Old Vic prior to a national tour. The ending has always been tricky, but hopefully my changes will make a difference.Sometimes finishing a...

What a stooshie there is over the Scottish budget and John Swinney’s plan to scrap the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. I have found the reaction from Labour very interesting. Their strategy appears to be to attempt to paint it as an anti-Glasgow policy from an Edinburgh-centric party. Jeff thought that Steven Purcell may have jumped the gun by describing the SNP’s budget proposals as “anti-Glasgow”. But if he did, Labour certainly weren’t embarrassed about it, and enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon. Already during the budget debate Margaret Curran had asked a pointed question about just what was in the budget for Glasgow. Separate parts of Labour soon latched on to the idea. For instance, Tom Harris was very quick to tweet the following: “Gutted by the...

TARDIS Television has The Doctor's Diary 300809, animation! Eli on LJ! YouTube! Jaime Carroll's Garden of Silence! Bridging The Rift Podcast has 5: Appreciating the Classics, "we’re joined by Steven of Radio Free Skaro and The Chronic Hysteresis to discuss the best way for fans of the new series of Doctor Who to get into and fully appreciate the classic series."Staggering Stories has released Podcast 53: Crow Balancing for Beginners, Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Jean Riddler and ‘Real’ Keith Dunn talk about the Doctor Who: The Black Guardian DVD boxset (that being Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead, Doctor Who: Terminus and Doctor Who: Enlightenment), find lots of general news, and a variety of other stuff (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit).Life, Doctor Who &...

It's always interesting to assess political reaction when new ideas appear almost out of the blue; so it proved over the weekend.Glasgow City Council - in the form of leader Steven Purcell - announced plans to establish their own minimum wage for council workers of £7 per hour and to push all their suppliers and contractors in the city to do likewise.Given that the council's budget was passed relatively recently without any mention of this it really is a surprising announcement - and arguably the biggest headline to appear out of Labour's Scottish conference, a fact in itself which has caused much comment.It's an indictment of politics that the main reaction to this plan (whether you approve or not) has not been the likely impact on low-paid workers and other repercussions but rather the...