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Listed below are comments made by i_love_miffy between Thursday, 12th June 2008 and Friday, 8th May 2009.

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Weekly Bonus Question 1:56pm on 08 May 2009 What King has a penguin named after him at Edinburgh Zoo?
The Iron Laddie? 1:36pm on 22 Aug 2008 Hmmm...I think you're wrong about this Brian. I think that Salmond phoned up GMS to speak on the matter for himself because he knew that if he issued a press release rebuttal it would again be taken out of context by The Scotsman.

He knows that the Scottish media is not on his side and when you want something done you gotta do it yourself.
Not ticking boxes 2:13pm on 12 Jun 2008 Personally, I feel this report has been a long time coming and I hope it changes something.

In Scotland, people have no idea what issues are develoved and what issues are reserved, so making sense of the news is nigh on impossible unless politics happens to be your thing.

I'm a researcher and I frequently have to explain to friends and family members the differences between Scottish policy and that of the rest of the UK. These people are not in the dark because they don't keep up with the news - it is because the news does not deliver information to them in a clear enough format.

People in Scotland are currently paying to be misinformed through the license fee. This is an absolute scandal and CANNOT continue. In the years since devolution, Scotland has become a very different place to England politically, yet the full extent of the country's progress is not known to the majority of the Scottish people.

Regarding the subject of a Scottish 6, I have been told by many (who should know better) that they believe there would not be enough to report on, as "nothing really happens" in Scotland. Now, watch Reporting Scotland (sorry Brian) and you might be fooled into thinking that this is the case. But the fact is the stories are there - they just need to be picked up and reported on - as showcased by BBC Radio Scotland daily.

The Republic of Ireland's RTE news is a good example of how the Scottish 6 might look. It has Irish news first, UK second and far, far more European news than we get from the current national.

I know that BBC Scotland wants the Scottish 6 - it's convincing BBC London that's the hard part. We've been here before but there is a stronger case for it now. BBC Scotland needs to put the "best television studio in the world" to better use, because what it produces just now doesn't cut the mustard.

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