The "Games for Scotland" programme will take place on 14 October - when Glasgow receives the Commonwealth Games flag from India at a ceremony in Delhi.

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That would put the Commonwealth, whose flag depicts the Goddess of Virtue, in extremely virtuous national company.

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At question time on 28 June 2011, Labour's Lord Anderson of Swansea asked why the flag did not appear above Number 10 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Europe day last month.

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