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To be equally honest, the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people wanting to access the app in a hurry should have been anticipated by the Scottish Government. The application of the app was rushed through to beat their own deadline and all John Swinney needed to do was to announce that there will be early teething problems and that everybody had until 18 October to download it. But no, he tried to be clever and it backfired, creating a shambles for those trying to download it and those having to operate events.

My wife, daughter and granddaughter are going to a show in Edinburgh on Wednesday and got word on Friday that they had to produce evidence from the app in order to access the venue. Thankfully, I managed to easily obtain the necessary confirmation from the website, ignoring the app completely.