Scotland’s arts groups, languishing for funding in recent years, got a pick-me-up this week, in the form of the “largest-ever increase in funding for the arts in Scotland. The £27 million package was revealed at the opening of the hastily rescheduled debate on the National Arts Strategy and its substance caught its beneficiaries, as well as its detractors, on the hop.” – The Herald (Scotland) 11/03/00