Dramatic entrances are the stock in trade of the opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, but the flap caused by her arrival at a city centre hotel must have surprised even her. The Maori soprano unwittingly spread consternation among staff at the Holiday Inn Theatreland in Glasgow when she asked to be directed to the hotel's "gun store". This, she declared, was where she would like to store her firearms during her stay. Even if Glasgow was recently identified as the "murder capital" of Britain, its hotels are not normally asked by guests to store guns. The manager told Dame...