13/01/2016
Kaye Adams gets to the heart of the news and offers listeners the opportunity to have their say, looking at the oil industry, social care, love in later life and teenage cancer.
PHONE IN 1 : Oil industry
The latest quarterly GDP figures for Scotland are out later this morning and the impact of low oil prices could be a factor. as the price of a barrel of oil continues to fall. So what is the future of the oil and gas sector and what are the implication for the whole of the Scottish economy?. Kaye Asks: are you feeling the effect of the drop in oil price?
PHONE IN 2 : Social Care
Motor neurone disease sufferer, Gordon Aikman says hundreds of people in Scotland are dying waiting for care packages to be arranged.
Kaye Asks: has your family been affected by a lack of social care provision.
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LOVE IN LATER LIFE
The unlikely couple of Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch have just announced their engagement amid a flurry of social media cynicism Kaye looks at finding love in later life.
TOILETS IN SHOPS
A pensioner from Greater Manchester says he was forced to wet himself in public - after FOUR shops refused to let him use their toilets. Should retailers be obliged to allow members of the public to use their facilities in an emergency situation?
SARCASM
Do the elderly just not get the joke? Kaye looks at a survey which suggest you might not recognise sarcasm as you get older.
FRECKLES
We focus on a new photographic project celebrating the freckle and find out why some of us are far more likely to get them.
TEENAGE CANCER
Kaye hears the personal testimony of Nicole who got a cancer diagnosis when in her teens and we look at new book aimed at helping other teenagers come to terms with cancer.
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Teenage Cancer
Duration: 17:26
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Finding love later in life
Duration: 05:27
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- Wed 13 Jan 2016 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland
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