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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWSIn the Herald today, by their only decent journalist, Ian McConnell:

Scotland last month surged up the league table of UK nations and regions in terms of the performance of its private sector economy as the pace of decline of activity eased greatly to be only marginal, a survey shows. Royal Bank of Scotland’s latest growth tracker report, published today, shows the private sector economy north of the Border climbed from 11th in December to sixth in January, boosted by a strengthening of services activity.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24922100.scottish-economy-surged-uk-league-table/

Surely that’s big news for the Business people at BBC Scotland? Nope, not a word. Just the set above of very negative or debatable indicators for Scotland in the months ahead. The omission of the above story is not an accident. Everyone in the field of business journalism knew about it. The BBC Scotland editor decided not to use it.

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