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Hello, thank you for keeping Seema and Mariana company while they were keeping my seat

warm. It's good to be back, though. And I have returned to an avalanche of Scottish-related

news. So first of all, there's been some developments in the police investigation into

the Scottish National Party's finances. We'll bring you that. But we've also learned

that there has been made a 3D printed model of the Stone of Destiny, which is a famous

Scottish artefact, which plays quite a big role in coronations. And of course, as one

of them coming up. And it's being used, this 3D printed replica as part of the rehearsals

for that big ceremony, which King Charles and the Queen will be taking part in next month.

Now, who better to write and perform a historical but also current essay, which will explain

to you the ridiculous history of the Stone of Destiny, but also link it with what's

happening today? I wonder if I can persuade Jim Nocty to sit in front of his typewriter.

It does seem odd to be talking about a block of sandstone so solid when Scottish politics

is in such flux today, but at least the police would be worried about where the Stone of

school or the Stone of Destiny if you prefer really is. They won't have to search very

far, it's in Edinburgh Castle. And we're now told it will go back to Westminster

Abbey for the Coronation, to the place from which it was snatched by four students from

Scotland on Christmas Day in 1950. The stone on which Scottish kings had sat to be crowned

for centuries had become by then a gritty symbol on Coronation Days anyway of a different

kingdom, and there it sat in the Abbey until a Conservative government in the 1990s agreed

that it should come back to Scotland. But here's the thing, is it the real stone? There

are people who will tell you that the original one lies somewhere under the floor of a country

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