Mr Salmond also announced that Terry Garcia, executive vice president of National Geographic Society, has agreed to chair the Scottish government Saltire Prize challenge committee.

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Contracts involving Chelsea defenders John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho, as well as Liverpool midfielders Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia and Arsenal's Brazilian Gilberto Silva, will cease to be 'protected' in June, even though they run to 2009.

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