Sky News: Scottish government apologises for ‘cultural genocide’ of gypsy travellers. “Scotland’s First Minister has formally apologised to the gypsy traveller community for the decades of trauma they suffered during the so-called ‘tinker experiment’. John Swinney said the ‘unfair and unjust’ policies, enforced by councils and the UK government between 1940 and 1980, had been ‘unacceptable’.”