SCOTLAND can seem a foreign country to our cousins down south.
SCOTLAND can seem a foreign country to our cousins down south.
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Ken Smith
Peter Drummond notices in the TV Times, where the thriller series Shetland is being discussed, that it helpfully provides a map of Scotland – and circles Orkney to show readers where Shetland is.
It reminds us of the Scottish journalist who was asked by a London newspaper to nip to Shetland from Aberdeen – the London chap had looked up a map where Shetland was in a box just off the north-east coast.
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Boxed into a corner
SCOTLAND can seem a foreign country to our cousins down south.
Peter Drummond notices in the TV Times, where the thriller series Shetland is being discussed, that it helpfully provides a map of Scotland – and circles Orkney to show readers where Shetland is.
It reminds us of the Scottish journalist who was asked by a London newspaper to nip to Shetland from Aberdeen – the London chap had looked up a map where Shetland was in a box just off the north-east coast.
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