page_title: Scotland Today
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Scotland Today / History / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: English: Arrival of Cal-Mac Ferry at Tiree. STV's oscar-winning film cameraman Varick Easton films the arrival of the Oban ferry as it arrives at Tiree. Note the police presence, to check on arrivals and departures.
context_page_description: Scotland Today is a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central. Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Central Belt franchise. North Tonight covered STV's North Scotland region, until both programmes were renamed as STV News at Six in March 2009.
context_section_description: In January 1993, Scottish Television launched a thirty-minute lunchtime edition of Scotland Today, presented by Angus Simpson and Kirsty Young. It was axed in the Autumn of 2004 although some elements of the lunchtime news were revived with the launch of The Five Thirty Show in January 2008.
  Scottish Television's news service was expanded further in November 1996 with the launch of Sky Scottish, a satellite channel set up as a joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting. Special mid-evening editions of Scotland Today were produced for the channel and presented by John MacKay and Andrea Brymer until the channel's closure in May 1998, owing to low ratings.
  During its 37 years on air, Scotland Today covered major Scottish news stories such as the Dunblane massacre, the Lockerbie bombing, the Argyll priest scandal of the 1990s, the referendum and subsequent set-up of the Scottish Parliament, the Glasgow International Airport attack in 2007 and the 2008 Glasgow East by-election. In 2000, the programme won the Royal Television Society award for Best Regional Daily News Magazine.
caption: News Cameraman Varick Easton on Tiree filming arrival of the Oban ferry (October 1985)
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