Talk of the Town: Minister dishes up food for thought

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond and his deputy Nicola Sturgeon will be hoping everyone can now forget about auctions, lunches and the Scottish Parliament restaurant after they were both cleared of any wrongdoing in the Lunchgate row.

But just hours before Holyrood's standards watchdog announced he would not be investigating any further, the Rev Alex Noble, who was leading yesterday's Time for Reflection in parliament, produced a ripple of laughter among