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It can be tricky, picking one’s way through the flurry of emotive language when a school is facing closure. Crossroads Primary was such a case this week: news of its demise was described, in the kind of understatement typical on these occasions, as being “the equivalent of the Highland Clearances”.

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While political arguments swirl around his head, the Scottish Futures Trust’s pound;180,000-a-year chief executive, Barry White, is getting on with the job.

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