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A Bella Christmas from Salmond

SCOTLAND'S resident artistic polymath – the painter, writer, muralist and playwright Alasdair Gray – has unveiled his design for the First Minister's official Christmas Card for 2011.

Gray, whose seminal novel Lanark was published 30 years ago, has provided an image of Bella Caledonia, a personification of Scotland, for Alex Salmond, following Christmas cards designed in recent years by Jack Vettriano, Gerard Burns, John Lowrie Morrison and John Bellany.