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The Kaye Adams Programme: 20/02/2017

20/02/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kaye Adams Programme, 20/02/2017

Kaye Adams asks where listeners get their news.

Kaye Adams asks where listeners get their news, following President Trump launching another attack on the media.

US President Donald Trump has launched another fierce attack on the media at a "campaign rally for America" event in the state of Florida. He told the crowd in Melbourne the media did not want "to report the truth" and had their own agenda.
And a number of Scottish papers today are speculating that the Director General of the BBC will rule out the Scottish Six when he goes to Holyrood this week.
Where do you get your news?

Like so many young girls of her generation, Moira Hyslop was forced to give her baby away when she became pregnant out of wedlock at 17. She was always determined to find her daughter but never expected to find her living just 11 miles away. Moira and her two daughters Susan Donaldson and Laura Alexander join us in studio. 

Diane Abbott has said that she receives racist and sexist abuse online on a daily basis. So how should politicians deal with online abuse?
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh is an SNP MP for Ochil and South Perthshire, Anas Sarwar is an Labour MSP for Glasgow and John Finnie is Green MSP for the Highland and Islands.

Owners of a Jack Russell in Russia have sparked an animal rights debate after subjecting their pet to cosmetic, ear-lowering surgery BUT does pet cosmetic surgery exist in Scotland? Ross Allan is from Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital in Glasgow and De Randall is the chairperson of Edward Foundation and has 25 years' experience of owning bulldogs.

What is it like to live with a genetic condition? Twin sister and brother, Jennie Chinembiri and James Williamson, have both been diagnosed with inherited phaeochromocytoma, a condition that affects a mere handful of Scots, and they are now racing to find a "cure" for the disease that took the life of their mother.

Does your gender affect your ability to hang on to a friendship? According to psychologists at Oxford University, men and women need different things to keep friendships going.

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