March 25, 1982
n IN THE Court of Session, Lord Ross interdicted distribution of Lothian Regional Council's civic newspaper, the Lothian Clarion. Three Conservative councillors claimed an item on the paper's front page was ''propaganda aimed at promoting the interests of Labour candidates in the May elections''. Lord Ross said the ''obvious purpose'' of the item was to praise the actions of the majority Labour group in response to cuts by the Conservative Government.
|n The Herald reported: ''The first of the 36 trees being removed from Glasgow's Bellahouston Park to provide a better view of the Pope when he visits the city in June were uprooted yesterday despite loud protests by groups of demonstrators.'' Among the protesters was Protestant extremist Pastor Jack Glass, who urged men felling the trees to walk off the job.
n The Herald also reported controversy following a ''ban the belt'' case in the European Court. The Scottish Council for Civil Liberties held that teachers who continued to use tawses could be prosecuted for assault - and condemned teaching unions for mounting ''a last-gasp, cynical attempt to delay yet again implementation of the commitment to ban the belt, made 14 years ago''. The EIS insisted that belting was still ''the common law of the land''.
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