A former star of Scottish soap River City has revealed his BBC bosses ordered him to delete tweets he posted during the independence referendum.
Adam Robertson, who played Shieldinch medic Dr Dan Hunter, claims he was reprimanded for a series of posts relating to the BBC’s coverage in the build-up polling day.
The actor shared a petition by a campaign group opposing apparent bias by the corporation and he tweeted criticism of Radio Scotland’s Morning Call show.
Robertson told The National: “Should nurses not complain about the NHS because they work for it?
“Morning Call came on automatically when I took the boys to school. Caller after caller was No, there was no balance. Afterwards I tweeted that I had deleted it from the autoset and wouldn’t listen to that pish again, or words to that effect.”
He went on: “The attitude at the BBC is ‘we don’t want to discuss issues that might divide people’. That’s not the kind of Scotland I want to live in. We have to discuss these things and make a decision. That’s democracy.”
Adam Robertson was written out of the Scottish soap months later, in May 2015, having played the soap's doctor since 2011.
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