TOURISM chiefs have been left with red faces after a flagship initiative was hit by an embarrassing race row.
The original promotional poster for next year's much-vaunted Homecoming Scotland event featured hundreds of smiling, and exclusively white, revellers marching behind a bagpiper.
But now a solitary Asian man has been "air brushed" into a rejigged version of the image in an belated attempt to reflect the diversity of modern Scotland. But the move backfired when campaigners for racial equality attacked the change.
I originally blogged on a certain homogeneity of the poster boys and girls here).
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