TV's Lorraine Kelly is gone with the wind

• Lorraine Kelly endures the elements during a visit to a windswept Capital yesterday Picture: Neil Hanna

Kelly was in gale-hit Festival Square in Edinburgh with Digit Al, the switchover robot, to kick off Digital UK's countdown to Scotland becoming a fully digital nation.

But the windy conditions kept causing her short red tartan dress to fly up with each gust, reducing her to tears of laughter.

However, she battled through despite the conditions to say: "For everybody on TV the switchover means that your programme is going to be seen by everybody.

"I don't think it's a sad thing to be turning off the analogue terrestrial TV because I do think that digital is an improvement and we all have to move with the times. I think people are a wee bit anxious about moving to digital but they shouldn't be. They don't have to go out and buy a big shiny new TV.

"If you are disabled or you are elderly you will get help with the actual switchover itself."

Four million analogue terrestrial TV viewers will have this service turned off next summer as the switchover reaches its final stages.