SCOTTISH independent schools have received more than £10 million of public money so that the children of senior military personnel can receive a private education.

Despite huge defence cuts, officers earning £100,000 a year are still allowed to bill the taxpayer for sending their kids to elite public schools such as Fettes and Gordonstoun.

Thomas Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, said the subsidy was "unacceptable".

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