David Leask
Reporter at The Times
Reporter, The Times. I am not on here much any more. Try me at @Leaskyd.bsky.social or on [email protected]
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thetimes.com | David Leask |Paul English
With her fiery red hair and piercing blue eyes, Iona lives up to every Hollywood stereotype of a Scottish lassie. The new face and voice of ScotRail has already been panned by some passengers for her weirdly symmetrical features and robotic, inauthentic accent. Iona is fake, generated by AI so the train operator can make her say almost anything rather than rely on pre-recorded stock phrases. But she is not 100 per cent artificial.
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thetimes.com | David Leask
"In the SNP's Scotland, it's apparently worse to overstay your parking by a few minutes than to leave litter or dog mess on the pavement."Kerr told the Daily Telegraph that councils were "all too eager to take part in the SNP's war on motorists". Twenty-two of Scotland's 32 councils have the power to issue fixed-penalty notices. In 2023-2024 they raised more than £25 million, according to data from Transport Scotland.
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thetimes.com | David Leask
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