View from the rostrum: Scott Donaldson - Record breaking autumn sales

Scott Donaldson on the latest trade

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It has been a wild month with Storm Babet causing havoc in the east of Scotland with a huge amount of rain causing widespread devastating flooding, and with Storm Ciaran due to hit the south-west of England...

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