'No connection' between schools announcement and Nicola Sturgeon's evidence to Salmond Inquiry, says Swinney
Nicola Sturgeon on March 2, the day before she appeared before the inquiry investigating the handling of harassment complaints against former first minister Alex Salmond.On BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Andrea Bradley, the assistant secretary of the EIS teaching union, said the Scottish Government was looking for a "good news story that week".However, Ms Sturgeon had previously announced the earliest date for some pupils to return to school would be March 15.On Monday, Education Secretary John Swinney rejected the claim."There is precisely no connection between those two events," he told Good Morning Scotland."The government previously indicated that we would provide an update on the return to schooling on that particular Tuesday, that is