Christian Fraser says the leaked report does not dispel French police's current working theory that the gunman was local and a "lone wolf".

BBC: French Alps murders: Cyclist 'was shot first'

Brown insisted he had never given permission for the Sun newspaper to report that Fraser had cystic fibrosis, and he rejected the Sun newspaper's explanation that it had heard about the condition from a person who also had a sick child in the hospital.

CNN: Gordon Brown lashes out at Rupert Murdoch, son and tabloid

The new figures follow a recent report by the Fraser of Allander Institute which predicted a slowdown in economic growth as a result of the manufacturing slump in Scotland.

BBC: Scots business profits weaken

Our own Forbes Capital Hospitality Index had it lower, at No. 21, and the "Economic Freedom of the World" report just out from the Cato (nyse: CTR - news - people ) and Fraser institutes of North America ranks it No. 19.

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