Well the Dep Ed of the Scotsman has come up trumps and has accepted the word of the community over the misinformation picked up by the Free Lance reporter in question. Mr Stewart informs me that the Scotsman will carry the following item:
an article headlined "Ex-diplomat in tangled web with blog" published on April 26 we stated that Peter Hinchcliffe, community council chairman for the Berwickshire villages of Hutton and Paxton was facing a vote of no confidence in his chairmanship as a result of offence caused by a personal web log. We now understand that no members of the community council sought such a vote at the council's special meeting. We would like to apologise to Mr Hinccliffe and we are happy to put the record straight. We also said a member of Scottish Borders Council legal department was to be present and now undersatnd this was not the case. Again we are happy to put the record straight.Huttonian is also happy to accept this apology. As far as the Scorsman is concerned incident closed and no addition to the work load of the PPC.
And as politicians inavraibly say when under pressure 'Lets Move On' Indeed
