Stockport station renamed Scottport to mark Scott Mills’ new radio show Signage and screens changed for 24 hours to welcome veteran BBC presenter to Radio 2 breakfast show.
Accompanied by the Rev Kate Bottley, a spokesperson for the train station told Mills on air: “The team have been working so hard right the way through the night to change Stockport to Scottport.
What gift do you get Scott Mills as a welcome to the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show?, asked the travel presenter Ellie Brennan.
All the signage has been changed from Stockport to Scottport … A whole new town, a whole new name, just to welcome Scott Mills.”.
Listeners also heard fun facts about Stockport station, topped by the revelation that in April 1970 a little-known David Bowie slept on the platform after playing at the Poco a Poco nightclub and missing his last train home.
