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SINCE Scotland's Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland was launched last Tuesday, everyone at Holyrood seems to have had their noses buried in Alex Salmond's White Paper. But the 670-page tome, considered by some to be a work of fiction, is not exactly a page-turner, so Dog can forgive STV political editor Bernard Ponsonby for skipping bits of it before interviewing the First Minister. This became apparent when the broadcaster confessed his concern that the one question he personally wants answered on independence had not featured in the White Paper: whether or not a separate Scotland would be able to compete for the Eurovision Song Contest. Actually, it does, on page 532. Nul points to Ponsonby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON Tuesday, Alex Salmond will launch his long-awaited White Paper on Independence with all the pizazz, glitz and glamour he can muster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT wasn't far from where Alex Salmond will launch his White Paper on Independence but the vision of a separate Scotland portrayed at yesterday's Radical Independence conference was a world away from the proposals the SNP leader wants to pitch to voters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was the SNP that insisted the publication of its White Paper last week was a 'key moment' in the independence referendum campaign. So the revelation, in an opinion poll carried out for The Scottish Mail on Sunday by Progressive Scottish Opinion, that support for a Yes vote remains becalmed exactly where it was a month ago, at 27 per cent, is a devastating setback for Alex Salmond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE SNP's 700-page blueprint for taking Scotland out of the UK may or may not have been conceived in a padded cell, but it is certainly being brought to birth in a locked room. One hour before Alex Salmond's top secret White Paper makes its long-awaited entrance this week, selected members of the media will be locked in a room at the Glasgow Science Centre and allowed to peruse the haud-me-back document. To maintain their interest, they will be fed on bacon rolls with plenty of coffee. Dog hopes nobody will need to answer a call of nature. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]