TRIBUTES have been paid to veteran journalist and campaigner for Scottish independence Derek Bateman who has died aged 71.
After becoming a trainee journalist at The Scotsman while still a teenager in 1968, Bateman went on to become the political editor of Scotland on Sunday before joining the BBC in the late 1980s.
For more than a decade he presented BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme alongside fellow broadcaster John Milne, who died in 2014.
