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First Minister sets out plans for Tartan Day



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FIRST Minister Alex Salmond will today set out the Government's programme for Tartan Day.
He will outline the plans at a speech to the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) 37th international forum in St Andrews.

There was no ministerial programme running alongside Tartan Week last year as it took place in the run-up to the elections.

But the then-Executive invested £344,000 in funding Scottish organisations to stage events at the week. An additional £70,000 was invested in marketing.

But a report earlier this week recommended changing the name of the US-based Tartan Week to Scotland Week.

The event has been held in the US since 1998, after the Senate designated April 6 Tartan Day.

The study, commissioned by the previous Executive, also suggested that in future there should be more events in other American cities, rather than just New York.

The report claimed there was confusion among some taking part about what tartan was.





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1

subrosa,

14/03/2008 12:59:46
After 9 years of this amount of investment in Tartan Day and some TAKING PART were confused about what tartan was? I can't stop laughing. Must have been a very effective bash.
2

Ard Righ,

The Rock Of Edinburgh 14/03/2008 13:11:46
Banning all fake "tartan tat wares" would be a start, only authentic traditional out-fits and cultural traditional bearers to lead. Not politicians.
3

BigKennyMac,

14/03/2008 13:52:21
What a total embarassment. jacobite nonsense.

Still - will be a big boost to the pakistani business community peddling overpriced tat to the tourists.

Big Kenny Bluenose.
4

KampungHighlander,

Jakarta 15/03/2008 11:01:58
As the day chosen for Tartan Day is the Anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath I think the money should be spent to educate the Americans how that Declaration was the documument that inspired their Declaration of Independance.

For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life
itself.

From The Declaration of Arbroath 1320.

 

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