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Faithful old individual grabbing paper is granted solitude (4,5)

The answer to that doesn't seem to be LAND O' THE LEAL! Trickier even than the Guradian one...

Hello, Elle!
I may have got the "Jolene" one!
Dolly wrote that song and many, many, more.
I was looking back at some of her appearances on the Porter Wagoner Show at the weekend.
That must have been 50 years ago!
Then there one of her singing "I Will Always Love You" (she wrote that, too) to Porter at the Grand Old Opry, when Porter was an old man.
Porter did not join in, he just sat there on stage.
It was nice, and very sentimental.
I am re-reading Down Under by Bill Bryson.
(That's where I learned about the Hill's Hoist!)

Elle,
Sorry I did not explain that very well.
When Dolly and Porter split up professionally, she wrote "I Will Always Love You" for Porter, as her way of saying goodbye.
Then, many years later she sang it to him when he was an old man at the Grand Old Opry Awards.
It was quite a hit for Whitney Houston.

Chris
Left alone

Thanks jazzy - is the "faithful" supposed to give LEAL, then? Thar's way more obscure than the Grauniad version!

...or "Faithful old"? Still not really defined, for me!

LEAL Scottish dialect word for loyal; insert FT (newspaper) paper and add one (individual)

see rusty @ post 16361

Though the faithful might go to heaven, so it would become the "anad o' the leal" I've found online "loyal, faithful, honest, true" - presumably a corruption of "loyal". That works for this clue; still a bit of a jump that they are necessarily heaven-bound, though!