I'm still waiting to hear instructions from Kirkwall as to whether in future I have to feed it all to the cats.

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"It's 2012 now, and I'm still waiting for DNA results, " she said.

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I'm still waiting to exhale.

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By the week's end, I'm in Perthshire still on the same subject where GMS presenter Isabel Fraser introduces me to a waiting nation as "our own silver fox".

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"The latest news from the Welsh government is welcome, but after waiting 40 years for a bypass I'm sure a lot of people will still be apprehensive, " she said.

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