ARMY officers of well-recruited English regiments are resentful that some of their battalions face being cut, while poorly recruited Scottish ones will be saved, it was suggested last night.
A senior Conservative backbench MP told The Herald that defence sources had made clear that only one of the Royal Regiment of Scotland's five regular battalions will go, despite three of them having some of the worst recruitment records in the Army.
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