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Ethnic diversity growing in Scotland

A STUDY has revealed growing ethnic diversity in Scotland just two days after the election of the country’s first anti-immigrant Ukip MEP.

University of Glasgow researchers found through a breakdown of recent census results that ethnic diversity is creating a “mosaic” of Scottish society.

The team behind the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, working with the University of Manchester, found that those in the 2011 census who described themselves as other than “White Scottish” accounted for 16 per cent of households across the region.

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