Battle lines drawn over Bannockburn row

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Phil and Jock, this is VisitScotland, the replacement for Tourism Scotland. Its mandate is to get people from other lands to visit Scotland. It spends its budget abroad fulfilling that role. It doesn't have much money left to toss about encouraging folk from Peterhead and Loanhead to visit Stirling for a day away. It's in The Netherlands and New Zealand and Australia and Canada and America convincing people to come with full sporrans for two weeks and more. What I find amazing is that so many of us simply accept the media negativity and become negative ourselves. I know its a national trait, but we really should try to fight it sometimes. Write a letter to The Scotsman and ask them to publish what you want to know.