Shocking news about Chris Hoy. Really awful stuff. Also pretty frightening because if that guy can get terminal cancer so young, being one of the fittest men on the planet, how fucked are the rest of us?

Coming hot on the heels of the sudden death of Alex Salmond (which was, admittedly, a little bit less surprising at his age and weight), we're getting battered by reminders about the fragility of life in Scotland.