Edinburgh celebrated ten years as a UNESCO designated Creative City of Literature with a reception hosted by Lord Provost, the Rt Hon Donald Wilson at its City Chambers on 30 March.

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It will be followed by a civic reception, hosted by the Lord Provost in honour of the athletes, their coaches and support staff, as well as London 2012 officials and volunteers.

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This blow comes hard on the heels of a decision by the Labour Party to drop legal efforts to oust Pat Lally from his job as Lord Provost (Lord Mayor) of Glasgow council, and end action against other council members who were accused by an internal Labour inquiry of abusing their positions.

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Many memories still live on but every time I walk through the arches of the City Chambers, often past demonstrators, I think of my dad standing there receiving his medal for bravery from the Lord Provost, and that he lived in the trenches, the medical treatment he received when he was shot up, and the life that he lived until his death.

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Lord Sutherland - formerly Stewart Sutherland - is a former chief inspector of schools and is currently provost at Gresham College in the City of London and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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