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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20080121
Author:PETER MACMAHON SCOTTISH

A CAMPAIGN to bring home the Scottish diaspora for the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth is still on track, despite the loss of two people appointed to oversee the event, ministers insisted last night.

Ministers have been forced to step in to hand control over the Homecoming Scotland campaign to the EventScotland quango after the initial organisation of the project foundered.

Yesterday it was confirmed that two senior members of staff who had been at the heart of planning for the 2009 event were no longer with the organisation.

Alison McRae, the project director, and Jo Wedlock, who ...

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