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‘PARKER! The Rolls!’

BRITAIN’S best-known luxury car may be best-known for carrying icons of the past. But Thunderbirds, it should be remembered, was set in the mid-2060s.

Now Eva Bolander (pictured), the SNP Lord Provost of Glasgow, will be ferried around the schemes of Strathclyde in a six-figure Rolls-Royce Ghost, “gifted” to the city council by an anonymous philanthropist. Very good, m’lady.

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