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package from Westminster – was welcomed this week and it may just tide some recipients over for a little longer. But it’s going to take a whole lot more money and ambitious thinking by the greatest creative minds in the country to see it through this crisis.

Let’s hope they pull it off because my lockdown experience would have been a whole lot drearier without the television, music and comedy podcasts that kept me entertained and – whatever your age – I suspect yours would too.

Take a moment to remember where those performers and producers honed their skills and ask yourself if maybe the luvvies aren’t a deserving bunch after all.

Clockwise from top left: Visitors admire floral displays at the reopened Falkland Palace and Gardens; drinkers keep their distance at tables in a beer garden; proud Dundonian actor Brian Cox; pints are poured at the Kilted Kangaroo, Dundee; set designer Leila Kalbassi installing tape at Dundee Rep; and, inset, Elizabeth Newman, artistic director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.