In the diminishing January daylight, Simon Pitts cuts a striking figure on STV’s main floor.
From the hall doorway, where the evening news team and the likes of veteran journalist Bernard Ponsonby, in trademark black polo neck, are preparing for the transmission of a Scotland Tonight exclusive interview with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Pitts can be spied beside his desk, at the end of a large open-plan office scape, which looks out onto the darkening River Clyde.
He stands tall at six foot five inches, with a slender and sporty build, helped by his daily cycle commute from his Kelvinside home, as he looks at the TV ratings. He lifts his head, lower face covered in a blue face mask, and offers a welcoming elbow to bump.
