IF anyone doubted the global interest Scotland's constitutional debate would create, then doubt no more – not after yesterday's press conference in Edinburgh Castle's historic Great Hall.
IF anyone doubted the global interest Scotland's constitutional debate would create, then doubt no more – not after yesterday's press conference in Edinburgh Castle's historic Great Hall.
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Fifteen minutes before the starting time, it was standing-room only in the 16th-century building, with journalists having to pick their way carefully though a forest of camera tripods.
Television crews from China, Spain, the US, Scandinavia, Azerbaijan and many other countries arranged themselves around the seats, where 80 journalists sat cheek by jowl – wedding-style, Scots on the right, foreign press on the left – awaiting what one local hack described, with a glance at his surroundings, as "the man who would be king".
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