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Radio Scotland,27 Feb 2026,28 mins

Jay Lafferty, Robin Ince, Sam Lake and Amanda Hursy

Breaking the News

Available for 89 days

Des and the teams break up the week's big news. Including: the arrest of Peter Mandelson, the opening of new walk-in GP Surgeries in Scotland, if people in their 60s are the luckiest generation, the proposed addition of snowball fighting to the Winter Olympics, Alan Carr’s new Scottish property and more. Lead Writer: Adelle Cliff Additional material: Sean Gorman, Alex Buchanan and Mark Granger, Louis Beer, Fearghas Kelly, James Docherty, Nathan Cowley, Jon Paisley, Cooper Mawhinney Sweryt, Oli Higham, Gordon Watson, Stuart Cooke, Neil Bratchpiece, Heather Kondak Ross Producer: Chris Quilietti Senior Producer: Lauren Mackay Researcher: Jodie White Script Editor: Keiron Nicholson An Eco-Audio certified Production

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