FIFE songstress K T Tunstall was busking outside Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to raise money for the charity Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, when a fan who had dropped cash into her hat tried to take it back. And, like all good buskers, K T was having none of it.

She told him that the cash was going to help improve the quality of life of children with learning disabilities.

He spluttered: "I need the money," possibly having got carried away with seeing K T, and then having second thoughts about the donation.

"The kids need the money,"

K T replied, and the poor chap slunk away, leaving the money.

In the confusion, K T promptly forgot the words to the next song. "I'm a rubbish busker," she told the crowd.

See it coming
THE Dumbarton area has its own radio station, YourRadio. Reader Calum McNicol was perusing its website and, looking at the profile of "psychic DJ" Joan Charles, reads: "My psychic slot has currently finished owing to unforeseen circumstances."

"Priceless," says Calum.

Home comforts
HOW are the precious folk at the BBC coping with their move from the refined west end to Govan, you may or may not wonder.

Well, while their neighbours in Govan go down to an ice-cream van for their smokes, Nurofen and single nougats, the BBC types now have a lunchtime van delivery from their favourite deli on Byres Road which they were all missing. They can order their couscous, asparagus and chervil pasta salad, and goats' cheese and sunblushed tomato filo parcels online before 11am and it is delivered two hours later.

And no strident chimes of Greensleeves from the van - the staff are sent an e-mail when it arrives.

Yes, it's tough out there in Govan, but the plucky BBC types are surviving.

Monkey mayhem
MEANWHILE, on the programme side, BBC Scotland's new comedy series, Legit, about a pair of chancers, begins its run on Friday. The first episode features a Capuchin monkey. The one the BBC hired, named Fidget, disrupted filming all day by squealing every time the cameras began rolling and refusing to sit in the same place for more than two seconds.

We know nothing about filming, of course, but we do think there was a bit of a clue in the little monkey's name.

BAA humbug
STINGY bosses, continued. After our story about Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary refusing to buy pens for his staff as they could pick them up for free in the bookie's, a former staffer with Glasgow Airport bosses BAA claims that you had to work there for two years before you were issued with a pen.

"Those of us who were honoured' kept them as collectors' pieces," he tells us.

League of their own
NOSTALGIA trip of the weekend was the festival of eighties music, Retrofest, at Culzean Castle with Kajagoogoo, Human League and others.

Human League perhaps disappointed a few fans by not sticking to the tried-and-tested greatest-hits formula, but introduced a number of political songs. Which perhaps explained why, when band member Susan Ann Gayle, who has been with them for at least 25 years, shimmied to the front of the stage in a short sparkly number, a member of the audience shouted: "Are you not too old for that dress?" to much laughter.

How's Your Geography?
THE Independent on Sunday gushingly writes about the "HYGs" - Hot Young Glaswegians - who are taking over the fashion designing world in London. It seems they understand colour very well because they studied in such "brusque surroundings". They include Christopher Kane who comes, we are told, from "Newark Hill" on the outskirts of Glasgow.

News, probably, to the Lanarkshire hamlet of Newarthill which should have its name printed correctly as it doesn't have that many top designers to boast about, it has to be said.