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Your Noon Briefing: Regional newspaper sales in Scotland, France ‘meets the media’, will Scotland lose the BBC?, etc
February 27, 2014
AN across-the-board fall in the circulations of regional newspapers in Scotland was among the main…
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Made Here: Panorama: The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy, BBC OneJuly 1, 2013
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Salmond reportedly urges BBC recall for DykeNovember 15, 2012
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Call made for greater autonomy to be given to BBC Scotland, in wake of Newsnight debacleNovember 13, 2012
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