Why is BBC Scotland’s scare story on the Spanish drug gang deaths leading to escalation in Scotland, condemned by Police Scotland, still online?

…linked to an ongoing gangland feud in Central Scotland, with fire-bombings, assaults and shootings across Glasgow and Edinburgh, since March, but if that is the case, it would represent a massive escalation in violence compared to what’s gone before – and this is unprecedented – the murder of two senior figures from Scottish organised crime in a busy public place in a foreign country.

Professor John Robertson OBA

While this kind of unfounded scare story below was to be expected from the Sun:

Scotland faces ‘all out war’ and gangland revenge attacks after Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr shot dead in Spain

BBC Scotland’s David Cowan took a wee leap [above] in the same direction to raise fears back among BBC Scotland’s often elderly and vulnerable viewers and the suggestion remains online as I write, the following day.

STV, in sharp contrast, 15 hours ago had responded to police clarification to say:

Police Scotland says there is no current link between the shootings and ongoing violence in the central belt. Officers added that speculation linking the events is “not helpful” to ongoing investigations.

For all their faults, often parroting the same unreliable reports on NHS Scotland, schools and ferries, there are areas and times when they do far better than BBC Scotland or the press:

STV is 7 times more likely to report on County Lines from English cities terrorising small-town, Scotland in the public interest.
Destitution – Watch STV News if only to remind BBC Scotland they’re more popular with Scots
Research: BBC Scotland News constructs a far more anxious and conservative world than STV News does:

9 thoughts on “Why is BBC Scotland’s scare story on the Spanish drug gang deaths leading to escalation in Scotland, condemned by Police Scotland, still online?”

    2. There’s news aplenty of ‘celebrations’ in Lincolnshire after their council voted not to allow a nuclear waste dump in their region. It’s going to be dumped in Cumbria instead or so I read recently. So plonkin it in a geologically unstable part of their UK, amazing.

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  3. “Officers added that speculation linking the events is “not helpful” 

    Well “speculation” is what the BBC love to do but they present it as ‘Scottish’ news which they then hope, as “speculation” , it will then be, in some way, “helpful” to other political parties in opposition to the SNP.

    As far as the BBC is concerned “Scotland will always be presented as #Sh*te and so then hopefully considered to be #Sh*te” by many Scots.

    (Or so they, the BBC, hope via their -fake- news reports, that , as a belief, will be the case for many here within Scotland).

    However that will only be a promoted position by the BBC as long as Scotland is governed by the SNP.

    Any change of government, via another political party, will then see a ‘miraculous transformation’ in how the BBC presents Scotland as a nation, how they perceive Scotland to be as a nation , but still they , the BBC, will continue to “speculate” that any ‘miraculous transformation’ within Scotland is only because it is still a part of their UK.

    If we keep voting SNP as our Scottish government that will then communicate to the BBC that their ongoing “speculations” are not what many of us either want to hear from a so called (fake) ‘news’ provider or indeed, really believe to be true .

    Vote SNP (tomorrow) via a majority , and also next year in 2026 do the same thing.

    Any other result will only encourage the BBC to be even more duplicitous and ‘creative’ in all of their future “speculations” so that they may keep being “unhelpful” as fake news providers to us, the people of Scotland.

    Liz S

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  4. Amused to see ” No suggestion Spain shooting linked to gang feud – police ” headlining on HMS James Cook’s ‘Scotland’ page at 4 hours old, and that ludicrous Glenn Campbell ‘jockey’ piece finally dumped from lead on the ‘Scotland Politics’ webpage – I see the latter’s replacement is the retitled ” It’s a dead town – what will our new MSP do to save it? ” rehash at 7 hours old.

    Haven’t bothered to look what else was changed on the original article, but what struck most was the complaints would chime with every town since the late 1970s when the ‘can’t afford it fairy’ came to town and only left tumbleweed.

    Instead of James Cook’s “…what will our new MSP do to save it? “, the more honest and ‘balanced’ question would be what are HMG going to do to put more spending power in folk’s pockets to enable it to be saved, because that’s what has boarded up high streets, poverty unlike post WW2.

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  5. Pingback: A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidde
  6. Pingback: A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidde
  7. Pingback: A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidde

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