Letter: Nil point

MICHAEL Kelly's "despair" at Labour's floundering election campaign (Perspective, 28 April) is well understood.

However, among the many inaccuracies in his article, his assertion that "financing was removed from the anti-sectarianism initiative Nil by Mouth" is untrue, as he should know.

Nil by Mouth was only last month awarded 60,000 in funding for the current financial year. This was as part of a funding package for anti-sectarianism initiatives, including other groups such as Sense over Sectarianism, totalling more than half a million pounds for 2011-12.

Nicola Sturgeon

Deputy First Minister

Glasgow