Troubled waters

Why has no UK party pledged to return to Scotland the 6,000 square miles of Scottish territorial waters, rich in oil, gas and fishing stocks, stretching from Berwick to Carnoustie, generously transferred to England by the last Labour government? (six oil fields were included).

By The Newsroom

Tuesday, 2nd September 2014, 1:00 am

No explanation has ever been offered by Westminster for  an unprecedented annexation, shrouded in secrecy. Does this  revert to Scotland after independence?

James Stevenson

Drummond Avenue

Auchterarder

Troubled waters

Why has no UK party pledged to return to Scotland the 6,000 square miles of Scottish territorial waters, rich in oil, gas and fishing stocks, stretching from Berwick to Carnoustie, generously transferred to England by the last Labour government? (six oil fields were included).

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