Supported by: Ruth Maguire*, Stewart Stevenson*, Ben Macpherson*, Rona Mackay*, Joan McAlpine*, Jenny Gilruth*, Richard Lochhead*, Bill Kidd* *S5M-06700 Alexander Stewart: The Great Tapestry of Scotland Arrives in Alloa That the — Parliament welcomes the arrival of The Great Tapestry of Scotland to Clackmannanshire; understands that the work is one of the UK's largest ever community arts projects and the world's longest embroidered tapestry; notes that it is being exhibited in the Speirs Centre in Alloa for the first time; believes that it tells 420 million years of Scottish history and was completed by over 1,000 stitchers across Scotland, including the local stitching group, Needles and Gins, from Tillicoultry; acknowledges that the project was originally spearheaded by the best-selling author, Alexander McCall Smith, who together with the historian Alistair Moffat, artist Andrew Crummy and stitch co-ordinator...