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Mornings: With Kaye Adams 27/03/2019

With Kaye Adams 27/03/2019

BBC Radio Scotland - Mornings, With Kaye Adams 27/03/2019

Speed limited cars, dating apps and forest bathing.

'The end of speeding' is the headline on some of the front pages this morning. It's because new rules to force manufacturers to fit speed limiters and other safety devices to all new vehicles in Europe from 2022 have been provisionally agreed by the EU. The measures could save thousands of lives each year and have been praised by road safety campaigners. But the AA says  "Dodgems.. are all fitted with speed limiters but they still seem to crash".
Do you welcome speed limited cars?

Also on the show....

The reality of dating apps: we speak to the woman who tried swiping for love and found out the truth about her 800 matches 

Broadcaster and Mum of 2 Cat Cubie returns with another dilemma - is it ever ok to bribe your kids with sweet treats? 

A survey by the SFSA found 8% of Scottish football fans were women - what's it like being a female Scottish football fan in in 2019?  

It was introduced by the Japanese government on prescription in the eighties but what is forest bathing?  Caitlin Kaddie, founder of Forest Therapy Scotland, believes she is currently Scotland's only practitioner and says that forest therapy helped her terrible anxiety.  

The European Parliament has backed a proposal to stop the obligatory one-hour clock change which extends daylight hours in summer Eu-wide.  We speak to someone who lived through the British Standard Time Experiment.

The National columnist Vonny Leclerc tells us about how her and her family have been priced out of living in Edinburgh.

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