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The Kaye Adams Programme: Diesel cars, how do we lose the stiff upper lip and our vet surgery.

18/04/2017

Diesel cars, how do we lose the stiff upper lip and our vet surgery.

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kaye Adams Programme, Diesel cars, how do we lose the stiff upper lip and our vet surgery.

What are you going to do with your diesel car? And how do we lose the stiff upper lip?

What are you going to do with your diesel car? Plus the mum who dropped from a size 18 to a 12 just by giving up takeaways. And how do we lose the stiff upper lip?

Owners of older diesel cars could be paid to scrap them under government plans to tackle pollution, according to newspaper reports.
A diesel scrappage scheme would be part of a new strategy to improve air quality after Europe said UK proposals did not go far enough.
What are you going to do with your diesel car?

We speak to Lynn Mckidd who dropped from a size 18 to a 12 just by giving up takeaways.
Vittoria Maranello is the Project Coordinator from Make, Move and Munch Club and Chris Yuill is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Health at Robert Gordon University 

Time for any questions you might have about the health and well-being of your pet. Dogs, cats, hamsters, iguanas...whatever you've got our vet, AWARD WINNING Ross Allan from Pets n Vets in Glasgow, will do his best to address your concerns. 

Can you Name the Place?
Clue 1: Most place-names are descriptive, and some of the names we have looked at in previous weeks refer to colour or size. Today's place-name refers to shape, and dates from before the third century AD.
Clue 2: The place-name is associated with the Gaelic word for 'wing'.
Clue 3: The name Donald has been much in the news recently, and has a close connection to this place.
Clue 4: The place-name features in the title of a song about a famous escape in which a member of the Clan MacDonald participated.
Clue 5: The 1980 film Flash Gordon was partly shot here.
Clue 6: A famous novel by Virginia Woolf was set here.

The heating engineer from Paisley who has managed to bag himself a place at the World Arm-wrestling Championships this June in Vegas. 

Prince William has said that the British "stiff upper lip" should not be allowed to endanger people's health. But how do we lose the stiff upper lip?

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