Science centre cut in funding

The law of political point-scoring came into effect yesterday. Science was the catalyst. This might have been appropriate. But it was unhelpful that the new funding package for Glasgow Science Centre should be the focus of a spat between the Westminster and Holyrood governments. In London, Gordon Brown said the SNP administration in Edinburgh would live to regret the decision to make a 40% cut in funding for the centre. Pete Wishart, the SNP culture spokesman at Westminster, accused the Prime Minister and fellow Labour MPs of scaremongering. Funding for Scotland's four science centres would increase by £250,000, he said.