Scotland Passes Baton

The formal handover of the Commonwealth Games baton has begun.

The host country of the next Commonwealth Games - Australia - has been presented with a poem extending the hand of friendship from Scotland.

Scotland to Queensland, Glasgow to Gold Coast was written by the Scots Makar Liz Lochhead and Jim Carruth, Glasgow's poet laureate.

Shona Robison, Holyrood's sports minister, presented it to Jann Stuckley, the Queensland minister responsible for the 2018 Games.

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