The Scotsman Bulletin Thursday June 20 2024

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Scotsman Deputy Editor Alan Young talks with Food and Drink Editor Rosalind Erskine about the Royal Highland Show at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh which runs from today Thursday, June 20 until Sunday, June 23.

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00:00Hello and welcome to the Scotsman's Daily Bulletin for Thursday. I'm Alan Young, I'm

00:10Deputy Editor of the Scotsman and I'm joined today from the Highland Show by our Food and

00:15Drink Editor, Rosalind Erskine. Hi Rosalind. Hi, how are you? Good. We'll have a quick

00:21look at the front page first. And there you go, we splash on our latest exclusive poll.

00:28There are a lot of polls around in this election campaign, but our one today brings a little

00:35joy for Don Swinney a day after launching the SNP manifesto. It has Labour on course

00:41to win the election in Scotland and predicts the SNP dropping to 17 seats at Westminster.

00:49Picture on the front there, obviously, Scotland's battling draw against Switzerland last night,

00:56which keeps the Euro 2024 hopes alive. And at the top of the page, the Royal Highland

01:02Show, it begins today and runs until Sunday, Scotland's biggest outdoor event. And Ros,

01:12tell us what's happening. Well, it's really busy, it's filling up nicely. There's a lot

01:18of people. I've seen some horses, I've seen some cows, I've seen some sheep. It's the

01:23most amount of livestock I've seen in a long time living in Glasgow. So we are in Scotland's

01:28larger food and drink area. We're here at a stand. And if anyone wants to come and say

01:34hello, I'm here staying tomorrow and over the weekend. But yeah, there's lots of different

01:39food producers. We've got pastries, we've got lots of different spirits, we've got flavoured

01:45water, there's honey berry. Yeah, there's loads of different exciting stuff. So it's

01:50nice to see a lot of people that I've spoken to for work. It's nice to see them in person.

01:54So I'm looking forward to getting around there later on this morning.

01:57Great. And we had the news before the show kicked off that there have been record ticket

02:01sales this year. Is the site filling up?

02:06Yeah, it was getting busy this morning. There weren't too many queues at East entrance,

02:11but I think the car park and everything's getting full. So yeah, I think it's going

02:15to be a busy day. And I think Saturday is supposed to be full. So yeah, it's exciting.

02:21And it's interesting to see. I've never been here before. So it's really nice to see.

02:26Yeah. And as you mentioned, you're also at the show for the next few days. We've got

02:32a lot of staff, a lot of Scotsman staff down there hosting various events. Talk us through

02:38what you're going to be doing.

02:39Well, tomorrow between one and two in the Food for Thought theatre, there's going to

02:44be a live recording of SPAN podcast. So we're talking to various different producers about

02:49getting their products into supermarkets. So yeah, excited about that. Everyone's welcome

02:55to come along if you want to hear more. Kelly, the producer and I will be there. And yeah,

03:01the first in-person SPAN live we've done. So yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going

03:05to be good fun.

03:07Fantastic. And anything in particular you're particularly looking forward to in the coming

03:12days?

03:13I'm looking forward to getting out and about and speaking to different producers. There's

03:17a lot of people here, obviously. Just talking to people that I've maybe not spoken to in

03:22person before. And personally, I want to go and see the goats and the sheep. I've heard

03:27the goats are particularly great if you're having a bit of a tough day. So I'm really

03:31looking forward to seeing them.

03:34Just turn your camera slightly, Ros. I think we can see an animal behind you.

03:38Which way?

03:40The other way, please.

03:42Oh.

03:44Is that one of the giant pandas making an appearance?

03:48They're back. I'm not sure what's going on there, but they look like they're subscribing

03:52to the Scotsman. So that's good.

03:55Fantastic. Absolutely. Thanks very much for that, Ros. We'll let you get back to it. I'm

04:00sure you've got a really busy day. We will have full coverage at Scotsman.com throughout

04:05the day with all the news from the show and, obviously, everything else. If you are on

04:11the website, please do subscribe. If you can, then you won't miss a thing. You'll be able

04:14to read and watch absolutely everything. And if you're out and about today, it's a glorious

04:18day in Edinburgh. Please do pick up a copy of the paper from me and from Ros. It's bye

04:24for now.

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