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ACCA Scottish Business Lecture

Published on June 12, 2009 By Ian Burgess

The event last night held in 29 Exchange Square was perhaps one of the best of these events I have been to for some time. The speaker John Scott, Chief Executive, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games was an entertaining as well as putting across the severity of the project and the obstacles  that the Games faces. [...]

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