The First Minister had been booked to appear on a light-hearted TV sport show ahead of yesterday's Six Nations clash between Scotland and England, but the appearance was cancelled at the eleventh hour by BBC political adviser Ric Bailey because of "heightened tensions" over the independence referendum.
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Salmond's fury after being banned from rugby broadcast
ALEX Salmond yesterday accused the BBC of "losing the plot" and questioned whether it could be trusted to stay impartial in the run-up to an independence referendum after it banned him from appearing as a rugby pundit on political grounds.
