Just Discovered 'Bottom'

[quackhandle]

Poor old Inverdarroch, he went mental in the face.

qh

[scooterscot]

My favourite Scottish TV program but it was independent TV: Take the High Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I smell... sniff sniff

[xoggoth]

Already eaten my share of the Mr Kipling Cake so I guess my weekend excitement is over.

[Wanderer]

Since when was the BBC budget proportional across the land?

Since never. The majority license fee payers in England have always subsidised the provision of television to viewers in minority areas like Scotland and that's one of the great reasons to be part of the United Kingdom.

What I'm saying is that if Scotland becomes independent then they can keep their licence fee and run their own TV station but I don't see why the BBC would be obliged to provide them with free programming and news coverage. They can't have their cake and eat it too...

Thanks for reminding me the absence of leading news stories when water levels become ankle deep across the south east or trains delayed because someone dropped a crisp packet on the east coast line.

The BBC has great regional news coverage, which region are you receiving the news for? If it's not the Scottish news, then how do you know that there wasn't fantastic coverage of the storms?

As for the disruption, it was well enough reported on the news that the storm caused a complete shut down of the Scottish railway system though it's not that unusual for storms to cause major disruption to travel in Scotland.

As for the damage to the South East, measured in economic terms it's a huge amount larger than Scotland so naturally it's going to get more coverage.