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Breaking the News - Series 20

BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the news started its latest 10-week run on 15th October 2021. Please see my submissions below. Hopefully some of these will have green text at some point to indicate they made it on air! 🤞 Jump to: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 COP26 Special Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Xmas Special Episode 1 - 15/10/21 Today was the 200th show. Congratulations to all involved! Openers & closers This is our 200th show. A lot has happened since our first broadcast on 5th June 2015. Back then Brexit didn’t mean Brexit; Corona was just a beer and Furlough was something we only said when describing clouds. A vegan food blogger from the Netherlands has won the World Porridge Making Championships. Miriam Groot, 25, who runs a blog called The Veggie Reporter, beat competitors from around the world. She submitted three entries to the competition and the third one was judged just right. Wildlife...

Breaking the News - Series 19

BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the news started its latest 10-week run on 25th June 2021. Please see my submissions below. Hopefully some of these will have green text at some point to indicate they made it on air! 🤞 Jump to: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 1 - 25/06/21 Really liked a couple of these, and they also did nicely on Twitter, but not to the taste of the show makers this week, sadly. Openers & closers Disney’s live action remake of The Little Mermaid has been hit by a Covid outbreak. However, in order not to delay the film’s release, it will be incorporated into the script. So, songs in the film will now include Don’t Kiss the Girl, More Unfortunate Souls and Under the C-19.    A parrot in Hartlepool was reported to the police for squawking a string of swearwords at a neighbour. The Parrot now faces being charged with a pieces of hate crime. A new ...

Breaking the News - Series 18

BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the news started its latest 10-week run on 19th February 2021. Please see my submissions below. Hopefully some of these will have green text at some point to indicate they made it on air! Jump to: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 11 Episode 1 - 19/02/21 Openers & closers Nestle has announced that they are launching a vegan Kit-Kat. The plant-based bar, named Kit-Kat V, was created following public demand. People are hopeful that those enjoying the product will now ‘have a break’ from telling everyone that they are vegan. Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely. The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner. Or, as it used to be known, a straw. A Lib Dem MSP has apologised after swearing at a female minister ...