The Great Scottish Tea Swindle
When Ron McNaughton was asked to investigate an entrepreneur claiming to sell Scottish tea, he had one thought.
'You can't grow tea in Scotland,' the former police detective remembers thinking of a plant normally grown in notably hotter and sunnier climes of China and India.
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