He was an Advocate Depute from 1972 to 1975 and served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Energy (1976-79) and the Scottish Development Department (1978-79).

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One of them, Tom Harris, a Glasgow MP and a former junior minister, is standing against two MSPs in Labour's Scottish leadership election, due in December.

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She also broke Zola Budd's long-standing South African record and arrived here as the newly-crowned African junior champion.

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