Rachel McCormack

I WAS lucky enough to be asked to co-host a Burns Supper in Mexico City this year. Victor Ramos from Whisky Mexico and Ernesto Galindo from Destino Education joined forces to expand the work of Ramos, who had already hosted smaller Burns Suppers over the past three years.

LAST week I was in Galicia, the far north-westerly part of Spain, which has gone through massive changes in the past decade, partly due to EU-funded infrastructure with decent motorways, better train connections allowing for more tourism and, crucially, easier export to both other parts of Spain and abroad.

SCOTLAND’S salmon farm industry started its crisis in 2016. That year, out of a total of 43 million smolts (young salmon) put into fish farm production, as much as a quarter ended up discarded and incinerated in north-west England due to disease and sea lice.

AFTER Nicola Sturgeon’s speech on Monday announcing plans for another independence referendum, she took various questions from journalists present. In the middle of the Q&A section a male journalist asked a question that was barely audible to a TV viewer but went on for an inordinately long time. Eventually Sturgeon interrupted and said: “Peter, it is customary for the journalist not to both ask and answer the question.