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The Kaye Adams Programme: Buying British food, Fidget spinners and Name the Place

02/05/2017

Buying British food, Fidget spinners and Name the Place

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kaye Adams Programme, Buying British food, Fidget spinners and Name the Place

How important is it for you to buy British? Do you care where your food comes from?

How important is it for you to buy British? Do you care where your food comes from? Are fidget spinners welcome in your house? And the farmer who lost 20 sheep in a dog attack.

The Co-op has committed to stock 100% own-brand fresh British beef, chicken, pork, lamb, bacon and turkey, they say to back UK farmers.
How important is it for you to buy British? Do you care where your food comes from?

Paul Browne's acutely autistic son was moved to a Birmingham care centre for a maximum of 2 years because of the lack of facilities in Scotland.....that was 11 years ago. Charlene Tait is the Director of Practice and Research at Scottish Autism, 

John Fyall from the National Sheep Association was on the show last week to talk about the dangers of sheep worrying and mentioned that he knew of 3 farmers who were ready to shoot the dogs that were terrorising and killing his sheep. We speak to one of those farmers.
David Morrison is a farmer from Girvan who says he's lost 20 sheep to a dog attack. Dr Roger Mugford is an animal behaviourist

The fad toys that have been banned from some schools across the country, but do 'Fidget spinners' really help kids to focus?
And when should we be concerned if our children struggle with fidgeting? 
Dr Amanda Gummer Child Psychologist and founder of Fundamentally Children. Noreen Boyle is a Mum of 3. Danielle Timmons is a Primary School Teacher.

The army veteran from Fife who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan.....who is set to become the first double-amputee ever to take part in the world-famous Le Mans 24-hour event, the world's oldest sports-car endurance race.
David was also on hand to offer advice to 17 year old Billy Monger, the promising young Formula Four driver who lost both legs in a crash at Donington Park last month.

CAN YOU NAME THE PLACE?
Clue 1: Many Scottish place-names contain river-names, but this one also refers to shepherds' huts.
Clue 2: Sheep are important to the textile industry, which is closely associated with this place.
Clue 3: However, the coat of arms doesn't feature sheep, but foxes.
Clue 4: The place-name is sometimes shortened to the first two syllables, and the shortened form is used for the name of the local cricket, football and rugby clubs.
Clue 5: Roberts Burns wrote two poems about this place.
Clue 6: It is the venue for the Scottish Place-Name Society's annual spring conference on Saturday 6th May.

Matthew Bryce from Glasgow has been described as 'extremely lucky' after being found by a coastguard helicopter after 32 hours in the sea.
Belfast Coastguard said he had been in the water since 11:30 on Sunday and was found at 19:30 on Monday.
So how do you survive when stranded in the sea?

According to new research, personal space varies between countries/ This found that people in Argentina favoured less personal space than people from Asia.
Personal space - how close is too close?

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