The BBC has commissioned a Catherine Tate comedy, Scottish drama Mayflies starring Line of Duty star Martin Compston, show from BAFTA winners Paul Coleman and Sian Gibson, and fourth season of Man like Mobeen.
07.08.2022 - 19:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A senior Edinburgh councillor has been left 'shaken' after being attacked while delivering newsletters in his constituency. Kevin Lang, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group in Edinburgh City Council, says he was grabbed by the throat and sworn at by an angry voter in South Queensferry.
Mr Lang believes the man waited for him to pass after earlier posting a newsletter through his door. He says the enraged man followed him down the street as he attempted to avoid the confrontation before assaulting him and stuffing the leaflet down his shirt.
The Liberal Democrat leader says while he has received verbal abuse before he has never seen an incident like it in his 25 years in politics. Writing on social media he slammed the 'intimidation' and said it has 'no place in a free and democratic society'.
Speaking to the Daily Record, he said: "I was quite shaken up I've never had a situation like that and 25 years. I was out delivering my newsletter door to door to people's letter boxes and I had delivered this gentleman's newsletter about 15 minutes before because I was coming up the other side of his road.
"He had clearly been waiting for me and he came out of his house and started shouting profanities at me. He was being very aggressive and I was walking away from him.
"The advice that we get given by professionals is to try to avoid interactions and so that's what I tried to do. But he clearly wanted confrontation."
Mr Lang says it was at this point the man grabbed him by the throat and 'forcibly shoved' the leaflet down his shirt before shouting more abuse as he walked back to his house. He continued: "I've been a councillor for five years, and I've been involved in politics for 25 years.
"You get verbal abuse. You get
The BBC has commissioned a Catherine Tate comedy, Scottish drama Mayflies starring Line of Duty star Martin Compston, show from BAFTA winners Paul Coleman and Sian Gibson, and fourth season of Man like Mobeen.
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