Scotland on Sunday

The Queen's nephew has launched an outspoken attack on Scots bureaucrats for allowing one of the nation's architectural masterpieces to fall into disrepair. Viscount Linley has lambasted Glasgow City Council, saying he cannot understand why the authority has failed to carry out repairs to Alexander Greek Thomson's St Vincent Street Church. Linley, in a rare public outburst for a member of the Royal Family, predicts the council will only recognise the importance of Thomson's creation once the church "has gone". The simmering row has also taken a sectarian turn after a leading expert on Greek Thomson claimed Catholic bias at Glasgow City Council was one of the reasons for the neglect of the Presbyterian church.