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‘An editor is a person whose job is to sort the wheat from the chaff – and then publish the chaff ’


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Richard Bath, Editor Contributors this month...


POLLY MURRAY The fi rst Scottish woman to scale Everest, the Perthshire- born climber, world cup skier and TV presenter explains how growing up in Blairgowrie has shaped her life.


ELAINE C SMITH One of the country’s best-known actresses, the Glaswegian explains how she became friends with Susan Boyle and ended up playing the Britain’s Got Talent star on stage.


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SOMERSET-WEBB The city-dwelling Editor-in-Chief of Moneyweek and top Financial Times columnist on how life changed forever when her husband inherited a Shetland sheep farm.


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A disgruntled correspondent whose letter I refused to publish (on grounds of literary merit and on account of the writer being bonkers) ended our exchange by sending me an email that was blank apart from the following quotation: ‘An editor is a person whose business is to sort the wheat from the chaff – and then print the chaff.’ Actually, I quite like that. In newspapers, the room for manoeuvre is limited to the events of the day, but while we operate within some parameters, one of the joys of editing Scottish Field is that it is our job to surprise our readers – or, to put it another way, to throw a good deal of chaff in your direction


and hope you appreciate our collection of the obscure and the irrelevant. As well as addressing the issues of the day, a key part of our job is to place a smorgasbord of the wilfully enlightening and the pointlessly entertaining in front of readers: hopefully, it’s what gives the magazine its character. Thankfully, our approach seems to be bearing fruit. As well as a monthly circulation of over 15,000 copies a month for the fi rst time in decades, we’ve also been the recipient of a couple of plaudits. The fi rst and most important one was to be shortlisted for a second year in succession for the title of Scottish Magazine of the Year at the recent Scottish Magazine Awards, an achievement of which we’re incredibly proud. We were, however, fi rst past the post in the category of Scottish Consumer Magazine Editor of the Year, an award which belongs to the whole editorial team. And, for that matter, which belongs to you our readers too because, like my disgruntled correspondent, you regularly tell us exactly what sort of chaff you like best, which is why we’re able to give it to you.


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