Sleaze fears

Scotland has all the right ingredients but none of the Government support.

Gordon Parkin If Fiona Hyslop engaged a bit more with her counterparts in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport she would get all the advice she needed, especially about the film industry but she’s been told to avoid London where possible. A one-woman culture team is unlikely to bring any success for Scotland.

Bea.sutherland He called for an investment in a film fund staffed by people who could take decisions, saying efforts so far had “failed”... and I wonder why – it seems Scotland’s closed for business.

robert By all means invest in all industries, just don’t see the lush green fields of Lothian as the site when so much of our cities are blighted with unused former industrial sites. Use these sites up before encroaching any where near arable land .

Jim Macdougall “Outlander producer calls on Scotland to build film industry”. And Scotland calls on Outlander producer to build their own industry. Scotland has more than enough entitlement culture.

oneworld72 How will it ever happen with a minister, Hyslop, who has no clue about the industry? Did she even visit the set of Avengers during the months they were in Edinburgh?

Honeysuckle There was another group who wanted to build a film studio in Inverness a few years ago. That seems to have disappeared in the Highland mist.