Sunday Herald: Executive duped over Dungavel SCOTTISH ministers who now refuse to speak out on the detention of refugee children at Dungavel were so worried about the problem in 2001 that they wrung promises from Westminster that they would only be held there as a last resort and for no more than a few days.

The 2001 pledge to Executive ministers was almost immediately broken. Some children have been held at Dungavel for more than a year; others have been held even though they have not been issued with deportation orders.