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Why the Herald’s editor fired a columnist in row with Rangers

The row over the firing of a columnist at Glasgow’s Sunday Herald shows no signs of dying down.

Members of Scottish PEN, wrote a letter to the paper’s editor-in-chief, Magnus Llewellin, to register their concern about Angela Haggerty being dismissed.

The letter, published on the website of the group that campaigns for freedom of expression, said its members are “deeply troubled” by the newspaper’s decision to sack Haggerty “for showing…