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Crews filming in Scotland told to hire local as industry booms

Global Published 30 September 2026, 21:53 · archived 30 Sep 2026

While the country’s screen sector is growing, only a fraction of production staff are Scottish themselvesScotland’s striking Ardross Castle, the oldest star of Celebrity Traitors, which kicks off tonight, is just one of the stops on the Scottish tourist board’s “screen tourism” trail.From Outlander and The Odyssey filming in the Highlands and islands, to Glasgow city centre standing in for New York and Gotham City respectively in the latest instalments of Indiana Jones and Batman, film and TV is increasingly big business in Scotland. Continue reading...

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