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Georgian home in Glasgow and Clyde Valley category named Scotland’s Home of the Year

A stunning Glasgow and Clyde Valley home has been crowned the winner of 2021’s Scotland’s Home of the Year in the grand finale of the hit series.

The Moss – a beautiful Georgian renovation in rural Killearn – fought off stiff competition to take first place in the BBC Scotland show.

Read it on the Glasgow Live website.

‘People risking lives’ at Devil’s Pulpit beauty spot

Public access to a beauty spot has been temporarily blocked amid safety concerns.

Finnich Glen – also known as the Devil’s Pulpit – has been used for scenes in TV series Outlander and The Nest, and the film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Read it on the BBC News website.

CBBC and BBC Three go HD tomorrow

Tomorrow will see the BBC launch both CBBC amd BBC Three in HD on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and YouView.

These two extra HD channels will be broadcast from both the local transmitter at Craighat and the Darvel transmitter. Meaning that anyone in Killearn and local area that can currently watch BBC One Scotland HD, will get these new channels.

CBBC HD will be on channel number 73. BBC Three HD will be on channel number 105 on both Freeview and YouView.

BBC restores five Freeview radio stations in Scotland

The BBC is restoring access to several radio stations on Freeview in Scotland, which for the past 2 1/2 years have gone off-air every afternoon and evening.

In June 2011, the BBC launched BBC Alba on Freeview channel 8 in Scotland. The capacity to broadcast this extra TV channel came at the expense of BBC National Radio on Freeview.

BBC Radio 4, 4extra, 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Asian Network and BBC Radio Scotland (MW version) are being restored. BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and BBC Radio nan Gaidhael as well as the World Service will continue to be absent on Freeview in the evenings.

More information about this can be found at www.a516digital.com/2013/12/bbc-radio-on-freeview-in-scotland.html.

BBC One Scotland to go HD on the 14th

Great news that BBC One Scotland will launch in HD next Monday.

Viewers in Scotland will need to reset any series links currently in place for recordings on BBC One HD when the new national variant goes live on the 14th January.

It will be available on Freeview and YouView (101) and Freesat (108). If you have Freeview TV/HD box or a Freesat HD box.

More information can be found at www.a516digital.com/2013/01/bbc-one-scotland-to-go-hd-on-14th.html.