Category: Argyll and Bute

GENERAL ELECTION COVERAGE ON BBC SCOTLAND

On polling day, General Election 2019 – The Results on BBC One Scotland, from 9.55 pm, will be presented by Glenn Campbell with analysis from Brian Taylor plus guests throughout the night. 

Laura Miller will be mapping out the story with state-of-the-art graphics, Rebecca Curran will bring the latest news as the result roll in and Martin Geissler will be getting the reaction to the big stories from key figures. BBC Scotland will be at every count, ensuring all the key moments are captured as they happen.

The results night coverage on BBC One Scotland will also include The Election Café at Pacific Quay where Nick Sheridan and Fiona Stalker will hear from journalists and other commentators.

The following day, 13 December, Sally Magnusson will take up the story for BBC One Scotland from Westminster as the country digests the results.

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PETRA AND PALS RAISE £65,000 FOR MARIE CURIE

Feeling proud of my Marie Curie family.
Last night we realised we have raised almost £65,000 for the charity – more than enough to fund three full time nurses for a whole year.
We’ve battled sickness, diarrhoea, extreme sleep deprivation and exhaustion but every one of the 27 (aged 27 to 70 plus) who began this trek nine days ago are today ALL attempting Everest base camp despite only six of us having trekked at altitude before.

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INDEPENDENT CELEBRANT

I am a member of the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants. This gives you the assurance that I am properly trained and insured to conduct funerals.
My experience, not just of conducting funerals, but also of speech writing and public speaking, goes back many years.

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DISHONESTY IS THE SECOND BEST POLICY

He thinks for a moment. “Genuinely, I think the internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation,” he says. “I think it would be very helpful for us to see it as a disaster, see it as something like nuclear weapons or . . . I was going to say the invention of heroin, but morphine is a wonder drug, so there’s an upside to heroin which I really can’t f**king see with the internet. It’s easier to get taxis, but that’s it. It’s addictive. It changes the nature of discourse in a horrible way. What was billed as the democratisation of knowledge has turned into the death of truth.”

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