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15/08/2018

With Kirsty Wark

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One year on - are you celebrating the baby box? Kirsty Wark takes listeners' calls.

An average of 1,000 baby boxes per week were delivered to parents of newborns in the first year of the programme. The Scottish government said 52,065 baby boxes had been gifted to date, with an 85% uptake by parents.
One year on - are you celebrating the baby box?

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BILLY DRUMMOND
Luchy Lopez-Hammann from Germany arrived too late in Scotland to say goodbye to her dying husband, following visa delays. Billy Drummond is a family friend of Luchy Gomez-Hammann and Usman Aslam is an Immigration Lawyer at MacGlashan and MacKay Solicitors

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
Two months on from the second fire at Glasgow's School of Art, we find out how businesses and residents are coping. Gill Hutcheson runs Biggars Music Business and Chris Bowen is a local resident who hasn't been granted access to his home. Professor Billy Hare is from Glasgow Caledonian University.

CAT'S WEE DAY OOT 
Travel writer and Sunday Mail Columnist Cat Harvey is back to take us on a wee day oot and this week we are going to the place with the longest and shortest HOLES in open golf!

WATERS BREAKING 
We speak to the couple from Fife whose waters broke with their first child at their best friend's wedding. Cass McNamara is a Midwife.

MUMMY'S BOY
Research by the Marriage Foundation suggests that teenage boys who are close to their mothers, suffer from fewer mental health problems. But is there anything wrong with being a Mummy's boy? Cameron Stout is Big Brother winner 2003 and self-confessed Mummy's Boy. Emma Kenny is a Psychologist and Aggie MacKenzie is a Journalist, Yoga Teacher and Mum of two Boys.

SPEND A PENNY
Public toilet provision has been declining for a number of years and the BBC has learnt that some UK high streets and tourist hot spots now no longer have any council-run public toilets. Should public toilets all be free to use?

THE BEST CHIPPY IN THE WORLD TBC
After the Lonely Planet Travel Guide deemed the Bay chip shop in Stonehaven as one of the world's best Fish and Chips, we find out from the owner what makes a good chippy.

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