Rowland was an accomplished bridge player. Although these photographs were taken in 1997, he actually learned the game in 1980. His partner was always May Chipulina and their adversaries invariably Alan Pow and me. Over a period of about 15 years we played almost every friday night keeping a meticulous record of all our rubber scores including slams, Yarboroughs and other oddities. I really miss those games.

THE CHILE COMMITTEE ON SWEDISH TV. PATRICIA INTERVIEWED ON CHANNEL 4. In October 1998, General Pinochet, the recently retired Chilean dictator was arrested in London for the many crimes which he had committed during his dictatorship. When Swedish Television decided to make a documentary of the affair they interviewed Patricia Pizarro, a member of the Chile Solidarity Committee in Stirling.

With Pinochet still under house arrest, Chile Solidarity and other like-minded committees organised a London protest march to try to persuade Jack Straw and the British Government to allow the General to be extradited to Spain to face trial.

The Iraq war began in 2003 with a US led invasion composed mostly of US and UK troops. The war is still on-going after five years. No WMDs or Iraqi links with al-Qaeda have ever been found. The first slide show is of an ant-war demonstration, again in the Thistle Centre and the second is of an anti-war march in Glasgow.

1983 ALL WE NEED IS . 8216;All we need is unity of purpose . Well here he is a quarter of a century ago, asking for money. And by the way, he may not have been sitting at the top table but you can be sure that he was the person who actually organised the whole thing.