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Although the wind reached the force of a gale, not one feather came adrift on that great day."I also point out that between 80 and 90 countries around the world currently have a bird as a national symbol.
In fact, my officials have just advised me that requests ought to be replied to within 10 working days. I have a couple of brief questions on implementation.
I fully accept, as you said convener, that today is not the day to address the merits or otherwise of abolishing the tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges.
We discussed the paper at the away day, but several members were not at that event, so it was suggested that we should bring it back for the meeting, to give those members a flavour of the thrust of the arguments.
The junction is not suitable for that type of traffic flow and, at certain times of the day, it virtually becomes a car park and traffic goes from 60mph to zero in a short space of time.
In the Parliament and in the media in recent days, there has been much discussion of the proposals to extend protection for a small number of royal residences in Scotland and the impact of that on the rights of ordinary people to access land.