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Film industry must not be neglected in the fall-out from Creative Scotland

THE fact that it has taken two and a half years for Creative Scotland to be judged fatally flawed comes as no surprise, as it was an idea sketched on the proverbial back of a fag packet as a knee-jerk reaction to criticism ("Creative Scotland chief quits after artists' revolt", The Herald, December 4 ).

Seven months after James Boyle delivered his massive Cultural Commission Jack McConnell's Labour-Liberal Democrat administration had not uttered a word. So it was, in desperation to silence the critics, that the then Culture Minister announced that the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen should be merged to become a single entity.

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