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Morning Call: 24/04/2014

24/04/2014

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Kirsty Wark asks if you'd like to see fewer bookies and payday lenders on the high street.

Kirsty Wark asks if you would like to see fewer bookies and payday lenders on the high street.

Kirsty Wark asks if there should be a crackdown on the numbers of payday lenders and bookmakers on Scotland's high streets.

Scottish Government Minister for Local Government, Derek Mackay, wants to give councils more powers to limit the number of payday lenders and bookmakers on our high streets.

Plus: The Scottish Secular Society are calling for NHS payment to external churches to be scrapped and for budgets for internal chaplaincy services to be re-examined urgently after it was revealed that Scottish health boards collectively spend nearly £4m a year on spiritual support for patients.

Kirsty asks: Is it right that the NHS spends millions per year on religion?

Call 0500 92 95 00, text 80295, email morningcallscotland@bbc.co.uk.

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