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Arts body launches at last ... as funding cuts loom

MANY thought the curtain would never rise, but a new era in Scotland’s culture began yesterday with the official birth of the long-awaited new arts funding body for Scotland, Creative Scotland.

With a £35,000 new logo and identity, £60 million in funds -- at least for one year -- and a self-described mission to act as a

rallying cry to the cultural scene, the official beginning of Creative Scotland (CS) brings to an end a five-year process.