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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20020512
Author:Heath, Tina

Byline: TINA HEATH

THEY know he wrote poems and lived locally but, that apart, many involved in the tourist industry in Ayrshire know very little about its most famous son ? Robert Burns.

In fact, visitors often embarrass locals with their superior knowledge of the life and works of the Bard.

Now tourist bosses are spending ?10,000 for three pilot training courses to teach taxi drivers, police officers.

hoteliers, shopkeepers and publicans about Burns.

The move follows research that revealed the depths of ignorance about the poet.

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