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We could do without that doom and gloom aspect of the Scottish personality in the new Scotland; we have achieved something great—a great new image for Scotland—so let us build on it.
That means that somebody can say, "That looks like a nice place for folk to have weddings in. I'll buy it, apply for a period licence, and put an advert in The Herald saying: ‘How would you like to get married here?'"
The following table presents the latest available information. It combines deaths from intentional self-harm with deaths from events of undetermined intent, as the majority of the latter are likely to have been suicides.