And now, here is the news from BBC Scotland ...

This is nice. A Scottish journalist is creating a history of broadcasting in Scotland (book and a massive wiki site -- Scotland On-Air).

There is a wiki page on my dad, James Herd here.

Jim Herd, age 18 or thereabouts, during National Service in 1948

The news programmes he and his colleagues created (Reporting Scotland in1968 on television and Good Morning Scotland in 1973 on radio) are still broadcast by the BBC today; 56 and 51 years after their launch.

Thank you Graham Stewart.