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'No threat' of court over referendum

Michael Moore has played down the possibility of the UK Government taking legal action if Holyrood runs its own independence referendum.

The Scottish Secretary said he did not "envisage the circumstances" of Westminster raising an action in the UK Supreme Court despite the hard line taken by Advocate General Lord Wallace who warned a Scottish Parliament Bill to organise a referendum without Westminster's approval would not be legal.