Summary
Former First Minister Alex Salmond gives evidence to the committee investigating the Scottish government's mishandling of complaints against him. It’s a complicated story, but luckily our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith and political correspondent Nick Eardley are on hand to talk us through the events of the day. And James Gallagher explains how the government is deciding who should be vaccinated next.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Rick Kelsey and Alix Pickles Episode Editor: Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, thank you for getting in touch about that story we did the other day there, |
| 0:08.2 | about our colleague Ben Bland changing his name to Ben Bullos |
| 0:11.9 | because he wanted to embrace more of his family's heritage. |
| 0:15.2 | Cameron got in touch to tell us about his mom who changed her name 10 years ago. |
| 0:19.9 | Cameron's email says she was Adrian Claire Crozier, but wanted to show more of her French heritage. |
| 0:28.0 | So she changed it to Adrian Claire de colony. |
| 0:31.0 | Sorry about my bad French pronunciation, two months after the deed poll went through, |
| 0:36.0 | she had it pointed out to her that her initials are now A.C. |
| 0:48.0 | Adrian, as an RAF I think ACDC is even better. Plenty more rock and roll to come on this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:52.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. on this |
| 0:55.0 | newscast newscast from the BBC what is this virus how does it spread how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones no one's got to |
| 0:59.9 | include what Brexit is there There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:09.2 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:16.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:22.0 | Nick in Edinburgh. And studio. Nick in Edinburgh. |
| 1:23.0 | And Sarah Smith, also in Edinburgh, |
| 1:25.0 | in a different studio because we have to maintain social distancing. |
| 1:28.0 | And also because I daren't go into the studio that's got a big sign on it, |
| 1:31.0 | says, do not enter here unless your name is Nick |
| 1:33.4 | Hardly. And Nick is one of our political correspondence and as Sarah said she's |
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