When questioned about the mistake during a visit to an Edinburgh school later in the morning, Mr McConnell described the error as "minor" and said it had now been corrected.
Councillors have voted to give Castlebrae High School in Edinburgh a reprieve from closure.
Parents and pupils have launched a campaign against the proposed closure of a secondary school in Edinburgh.
On that reckoning, Mr Blair, who was born and went to school in Edinburgh, has some explaining to do.
In this study, carried out in 2002, scientists from the UK's University of Edinburgh and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the US, examined 38 women who were pregnant while at or near the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
It has also emerged Edinburgh City Council was checking school meals to make sure they had not been affected.
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Prof Wilmut now heads the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, which brings together experts from the Institute for Stem Cell Research and scientists and clinicians from Edinburgh University's medical school.
But plans by Edinburgh City Council to close the school have provoked an outcry from its supporters.
Borders Council said it has been assured by suppliers that they did not use any of the companies so far affected affected by the situation, while Edinburgh City Council said it had checked school dinners and found no samples that caused concern.
Mia Gordon of Edinburgh Academy and Amelia Purkis, of Lilliesleaf Primary School in Melrose.
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The threat to some school crossing patrols is removed and support for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme is to be continued.
The members of the Russell Group of research-led institutions are: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, King's College London, London School of Economics, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Warwick, Imperial College, University College London and Manchester.
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The court was told there was no legal requirement for Mr Fuller to have any particular formal qualification, but he had completed the Duke of Edinburgh Silver and Gold Awards, attended a managers' training weekend and had been the school's Ten Tors manager in 2006.
After high school, she went to Swaziland to continue her studies before spending two years at Edinburgh University, Scotland, where she found herself one of very few women in the law faculty.
Professor Viney was helped in his work by a sixteen year old high school student, Mairi Struthers of Wishaw, who collected mucus from land snails housed at Edinburgh Zoo.
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