David Maddox: Hell of a week

In a week where one leading Scottish politician was complaining about the forces of hell being unleashed on him, while another was apparently trying to suggest that he was next to God (or was that God next to him?) it turns out that a third is actually going try to take on the fiery inferno herself.

But whilst Chancellor Alistair Darling's motive may have been revenge on the Prime Minister and Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy was seemingly hoping to gain some electoral advantage, SNP MSP Christina McKelvie's (pictured top right) stunt is for charity.

Whilst many politicians would walk on hot coals to get elected later this year, Ms McKelvie is to literally do that on 12 March to raise money for motor neurone disease, a condition her father suffered from.

Anybody wishing to sponsor her should go to this link.

*I have just been reminded that this is not Ms McKelvie's first experience of playing with fire. She once admitted to having an interesting tattoo of a dragon.