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In defence of the Star’s Scotland coverage
While acknowledging that there is always room for improvement CONRAD LANDIN points to the variety of views represented in the newspaper in recent months
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TWO letters published in the Star in recent weeks — from Alastair McLeish and the Scottish Socialist Party’s Ken Ferguson — have criticised the “relentless anti-SNP tone” (Ferguson’s words) of the paper’s Scottish coverage.

I’m always happy to take on board suggestions as to how we can improve and broaden content relating to Scotland.

Ferguson’s suggestion that we give more space to discussion of a Scottish currency is one I will look to take up.

Any reader of this column will know I’m unconvinced by the SNP’s claims to radicalism

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