Good Morning Scotland: talking on the telephone

Monday, November 26, 2012 at 12:49
Simon Clark

I was on BBC Scotland this morning with Sheila Duffy, CEO of ASH Scotland.

Unusually it was Forest's response to the idea of Scotland becoming "smoke-free" that prompted the discussion which was introduced by presenter Hayley Millar as follows:

"Campaigners who support the right for people to smoke have hit out at plans by the Scottish Government to make the country virtually smoking free. The Government wants Scotland to be among the first countries to quit the habit within the next two decades ..."

To listen click here. It begins at 1:34:00.

If I sound a bit fuzzy it's because I was speaking from a phone in my bedroom. I was supposed to do it from the BBC's Cambridge studio but at 6.20 last night I had to send a text to the producer:

Small problem. River at bottom of my road has flooded. I have just checked and I don't think I will get my car out in the morning. Happy to try but it might be best to use landline.

We used the landline.

In addition to the Sunday Herald yesterday, Forest was today quoted by the following newspapers in Scotland – Daily Mail, Daily Express and the Herald.

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