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don't mention the Olympics

It is jolly unsporting of the London 2012 organisers to deny the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes a wee heat from the Olympic flame.

The SWRI was going to have a bit of flower-arranging at its national conference to celebrate the games but have been prevented from doing so by draconian copyright rules.

The Going for Gold competition to design a floral arrangement in a sports shoe will not leave the starting blocks. There will be a similar fate, presumably, for the SWRI contest to fit as many Olympics organisers' brain cells as possible into a matchbox.

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