A radio station in the Home Counties has banned everything Scottish, including music, until the independence referendum after a tirade by one of its hosts.
BOB fm declared itself a Scot Free zone today on its breakfast show after playing the Proclaimers "500 miles".
Breakfast Show host, Graham Mack, stopped the track half way through through and said, "I've had enough of this! You'll walk 500 hundred miles, but you don't want anything to do with England?
"After all we've done for you! For 300 years, we've put up with your bagpipes, your spicey eggs, your hairy cattle, your short-arsed ponies, your men in skirts, and...the Krankies. You ungrateful bunch of whisky-swigging, haggis-munching caber tossers!
"From now on, this radio station is banning anything Scottish, that includes music by ALL Scottish artists!"
Former BOB fm artists that will no longer be played include Paolo Nutini, KT Tunstall and Primal Scream. The station also has a new logo which features the union flag without the Saint Andrew's Cross.
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