🔴 Exclusive: Historic private school plans to freeze fees for 3 years despite VAT charge

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It's Tuesday and officially only 15 sleeps until Christmas. If you haven't made a start yet to the Christmas shopping, now might be the time!

In the meantime, we're here to bring you all the very latest in the news. First up, another in a long line of exclusives from our Education Correspondent Calum Ross. He writes about an Edinburgh private school that has taken the more unusual step not to hike fees in response to the VAT change - but to freeze them for three years.

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Lastly for today, our Arts and Culture Correspondent Brian Ferguson visited the set of Colin Firth's new drama, which follows Dr Jim Swire's relentless pursuit of Lockerbie truth and justice.