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Runrig singer and ex-bishop chase top Arts Council post
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FORMER Runrig singer and would-be MP Donnie Munro is in the
running against a retired bishop to chair the Scottish Arts Council.
Interviews for the job were held this week and Mr Munro and
Richard Holloway, the 71-year-old former Scottish Episcopal Bishop of
Edinburgh, are on the shortlist.
The council oversees more than GBP 60 million in government
spending on 100 arts organisations. But the job of chairman has been
vacant since James Boyle left last June to run the Scottish
Executive's cultural commission.
The post has had its salary cut by half, and Mr Boyle's commission
is looking at ...
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