What's the story with Steven Purcell?

Most odd. The BBC are saying nothing. Sky news are saying nothing. ITV news are saying nothing. The Telegraph are reporting:

"Concerns over the health of one of Labour’s rising stars has grown after it emerged he had left a rehabilitation clinic specialising in treating drug and alcohol addiction.

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Officially, the 37-year-old, who had been tipped as a future Scottish First Minister, made his sudden and surprise decision to step down as council leader because of stress and exhaustion.

But eyebrows were raised when he engaged the services of Jack Irvine, executive chairman and founder of PR company Media House, who specialises in “crisis management”.

Mr Purcell has also employed Peter Watson, Scotland’s top libel lawyer, and council officials have been ordered not to discuss the circumstances of his resignation.

The mystery deepened when Gordon Brown, Jim Murphy, the Scottish Secretary, and Iain Gray, Labour’s Holyrood leader, all failed to issue press statements paying tribute to their colleague.

Only last week Mr Purcell sat on the top table, along with the Prime Minister, at a Labour Party fund-raiser at Glasgow’s Hilton hotel.

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Surprised colleagues said the 37-year-old had seemed “at the top of his game” at a party fund-raiser last Thursday, where he was sat on the top table with Mr Brown and Walter Smith, the Scotland football team manager.

Mr Purcell hosted a scheduled meeting with Labour’s Glasgow MSPs on Friday morning in his office but cancelled an appearance later that day with an entrepreneur.

Party sources said an emergency meeting was held on Saturday, at which colleagues unsuccessfully tried to talk an emotional Mr Purcell out of quitting.

He pulled out of another meeting on Monday, and officially tendered his resignation to Glasgow City Council’s Labour Group the following day.

Mr Purcell’s aides at the council apparently advised that he should fully disclose the circumstances behind his decision.

But Mr Watson, of Levy and McRae solicitors, blamed the pressures of planning for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a scandal over expense claims by the quango that oversees Glasgow’s transport network.

Council sources dismissed this, saying: “His health problems run deeper than that.”

A spokesman for Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister and SNP leader, refused to comment on Mr Purcell leaving rehab, saying that was a “private matter”. "

Something doesn't ring quite true about this story...

Meanwhile Guido report has some interesting speculation in the comments.