Plenty More Fish in the SNP

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Scotland is looking for a new first minister. As the race to replace Nicola Sturgeon starts to take shape, Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark, “fresh” off the sleeper train from Edinburgh, and Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, share their views on what’s next for Scottish politics and independence. The family of missing Nicola Bulley say speculation about her private life needs to stop. A policing expert, and a press officer who worked on the Madeleine McCann case, explain why Lancashire Police revealed details about her personal struggles. And after Adam personally tried and tested the postal delays, we hear from someone who received a letter from the Royal Mail more than 100 years late. Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Chris Flynn and Rufus Gray. The technical producer is Mike Regaard. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, do you remember that little unscientific experiment I did the other day when I posted
0:08.9	myself a card from home to my home to see how long it would take and how long it would
0:14.0	be affected by the postal strikes at the time?
0:16.3	And it took seven and a half days.
0:18.2	Well, that's nothing compared to this story on the BBC News website today about a guy living
0:23.2	in South London who received a letter that was written in February 1916 and took more than
0:29.4	a hundred years to be delivered.
0:31.8	Well, the accidental unintended very delayed recipient is Finley Glenn, who is a theatre
0:37.7	director at Who Lives in Crystal Palace in South London.
0:40.6	And he's here now, hi Finley.
0:42.1	Hello.
0:42.9	So just do the timeline for me.
0:44.6	When did this letter actually drop through your letterbox?
0:47.1	So it arrived a couple of years ago, I think in 2021, and it was just buried under a bunch of
0:53.6	leaflets in the stairwell of our block of flats.
0:56.4	And yeah, we found it and saw that it was dated 16, figured it was from 2016,
1:03.1	then noticed the stamp of the king on it.
1:04.9	So thought it couldn't have been 2016 and opened it up, realised it was from 1916.
1:10.5	And then I just, we kept it away in a drawer for a while and would tell people,
1:15.4	but yeah, I just got it back out, found it again last week and thought I'd get in touch with
1:21.2	a local press and since then everyone seems to have become interested in it in a way I didn't quite
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