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  1. bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1003z First Minister John Swinney has apologised for a state-sanctioned social experiment on Scotland's #Gypsy #Travellers.

    In what is known as the "#TinkerExperiments", which ran from the 1940s to 1980s, authorities aimed to "settle" travellers by forcing them to leave their lives on the road for permanent settlements.