Newly-released cabinet papers show ministers were worried about sensitivities over shooting contests.
England's Kenneth Parr shooting during the 50m Rifle Prone Men at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Carnoustie, during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School before shooting himself in March 1996.Cabinet papers from February 2007, when Lord McConnell led a Labour/LibDem coalition, noted that planning for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was under way, and that shooting had been included as one of the additional sports in the programme.
Other Scottish cabinet papers published by National Records of Scotland show that ministers were concerned about NHS staff being "victimised as a group" after the Glasgow Airport attack because one of the attackers was a doctor. Details from a cabinet meeting on 3 July 2007 discussed the potential demonisation of NHS staff and possible background checks for healthcare workers coming in from abroad. Abdullah was born in England but qualified as a doctor in Iraq.
Solicitor General Frank Mulholland KC also spoke to ministers at the time of the potential impact on ethnic minority communities more widely.
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