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“Margaret Curran will be participating in a live online question and answer session on February 24, 2004. The Minister will be answering questions between 13:00 and 14:00 on 24 Feb 2004. Questions may be submitted during the interview or in advance from 08:00 on 24 Feb 2004 . . .” Scot. Exec.
Posted by MM on Fri 20th Feb 2004 at 3:37 pm
Can You Hear Me?
Four programmes this week on the Children’s Panel, a “hearings system struggling under the pressure of increasing parental neglect”. All broadcast at 2205-2230.
Tuesday 28th; What happens when a mother admits she can’t cope?
Wednesday 29th; Drugs - The Walking Wounded
Thursday 30th; Who’s Really Listening?
Friday 31st; When Kids Stop Being Kids
BBC Radio Scotland. Scroll down page to audio links.
Posted by MM on Sun 26th Oct 2003 at 5:38 pm
“Crack dealers targeting rural towns: Drug gangs from inner city areas are targeting rural areas across Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed.
The programme, to be shown on BBC One at 22.15 GMT on Sunday 26 October reveals that as many as nine gangs from Wolverhampton are operating in the north-east of Scotland.
Big inner city drug dealers began targeting Aberdeen, and the surrounding fishing towns such as Fraserburgh and Peterhead in the mid 1990s.
BBC - follow links to download programme.
“Creeping menace of Yardies’ crack cocaine trade revealed: When Margaret and Jack Beveridge moved to the affluent, coastal village of Newburgh, just outside Aberdeen, two-and-a-half decades ago, they were confident they had found a safe haven for their children to grow up in. The problems of Britain?s crime-ridden inner-city estates seemed a million miles away. . .” Scotsman
Posted by MM on Sun 26th Oct 2003 at 5:31 pm“For the past 18 months, BBC cameras have been given unprecedented access to the Edinburgh drugs squad and Operation Neon - code-name for the war against crack . .” BBC Scotland
Series starts on Thursday 23rd October at 21.00.
Posted by MM on Thu 23rd Oct 2003 at 1:59 amJane Franchi with an examination of Scotland’s criminal justice system on BBC Radio Scotland..
Monday 6 Oct 11.30-12.00 (4 weeks).
Repeated Tuesday 2230-2300.
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