Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

[Sgurr]

John Macdouall Stuart played a prominent role in overlanding (i.e. talking the Australian telegraph overland from North to South).Probably wrong, as I have invented the "O" though not what he did.

[Glengavel]

Not him, this was in the UK.

[Glengavel]

O more usually referred to as OO.

[Glengavel]

Unlike recent questions, this is not recent events, although it was around this time of year.

[Sgurr]

Briefly hoped it might be the Open at the Old, but can't find any suitable players. Not an organiser?

[Glengavel]

No sport involved, sorry.

[Glengavel]

JMS had a son PKS who represented Scotland in an entirely different field.

[Glengavel]

Is everyone out on the hills or something?

[Sgurr]

Those are clues to the names of the beaches for the D-Day landings. James Martin Stagg was the Met Office officer who persuaded Eisenhower to delay landing for a day. Never heard of him until you gave those clues. HIs son, Peter Kidner Stagg is an ex Scotland rugby player and crowd-funded a memorial to his father in his home town of Dalkeith. Phew. O and O is Overlord and Omaha (I think) I had tried googling James M.S.....without success, and Peter K, S ditto. I even tried combinations of boys names and think I did try James Martin S, but only got things like James Martimn STicky Toffee pudding. That was a hard one.

"Out on the hills?" Was wandering round Fife on Sunday https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3930168707100474&set=pcb.10158475349956680

[Glengavel]

OO is Operation Overlord. The picture clues are the D-Day beaches Gold, Juno, Sword, the city of Omaha, Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah in 'Point Blank', and a picture of the old Met Office in Bracknell.

There was a programme about the D-Day landings on telly when I thought up the question, and Stagg was mentioned.

Well done, your turn.

[Sgurr]

Why is BR the odd one out?

[Sgurr]

It wouldn't be the odd one out but for a certain occurrence in the late fifteenth century.

[Tinto63]

Is this Berwick Rangers playing in Scottish League football?

[Sgurr]

It is. I thought someone would have leaped on it yesterday.

[Tinto63]

Thanks Sgurr, thought that was worth a try. I see Berwick Rangers now play in the Lowland League.

Now try this one: what links RR and WM?