GREAT news...just like Norrie always wrote. It must have been a quiet news day, so he made his own story.
I remember a tale told by an old friend of Norrie's, Fred Stephen, the editor of the late lamented Scottish Clubman magazine.
Fred was the "stringer" for all the papers in the North east of Scotland, so, on his trusty Norton, he sped around the countryside, following leads.
Hearing a fire engine one day, Fred set off in hot pursuit, but at the foot of the Carbisdale Brae, he hit a patch of diesel on the road, and fell off.
The fire engine sped off, and Fred missed the drama. However, never being one to waste an experience, he sent in a story of a motorcyclist falling off his bike on the outskirts of Stonehaven, without serious injury...got to make your money somehow when you are a jounalist in a quiet wee place like Stonehaven!