COUNCIL chiefs were stunned to spot Peter Capaldi’s doppelganger hanging about in Glasgow City Chambers.

It seems the 12th Time Lord had hopped in the TARDIS and catapulted himself into the future after appearing in a painting from 1930.
That may not exactly be true, but the Scots actor does bear an uncanny resemblance to a portrait of the city’s former Lord Provost, Sir Patrick Dollan.

The artwork, which has been hanging in the gallery for more than 80 years, was discovered by Councillor Greg Hepburn during his lunch break.He said: “I was on a break and wondered up to the gallery. I looked at this painting and thought ‘that’s the Doctor’.

“I’m quite a great Whovian – a Doctor Who fan. From the red jacket to the hair it was a dead image of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.
“Some of my colleagues thought it as well and we got on to quite an interesting debate about it. It will have been up there for decades. Maybe it was the Time Lord after all.

He added: “I shiver to think what he was doing here – maybe we had some Zygons of Daleks ready to invade.
“Zygons are characters that take on human form so I wonder which councillor it may have been.

“I was only elected councillor in August so I’m pleased that he first time someone got in touch with me was because of Doctor Who.”
The painting, titled ‘The Red Jacket’, was created by Archibald McGlashan to commemorate Sir Dollan, who served as Lord Provost from 1938 to 1941.