In response, First Minister John Swinney told the chamber that Scotland had the capacity to absorb and overcome every passing storm.<\/p>\n
He called for co-operation and renewal and added that new politics was the basis for a new hope.<\/p>\n
Swinney then spoke in Gaelic and said: “Our people need us to work together, to improve their lives to bring them hope. That is what we must now do,” he said.<\/p>\n
The parliament’s piper, MSP Stuart McMillan, brought the event to a close with a performance in the members’ garden of Bonnie Dundee and a Hundred Pipers.<\/p>\n
Following the ceremony, the King and Queen met local heroes nominated by MSPs for their “extraordinary contribution” to local communities.<\/p>\n
They included four-year-old Gregor Corse from Orkney, who was born with a brain condition which affects his balance and motor skills. <\/p>\n
He was nominated after raising \u00a370,000 for charity by doing laps around his house, supported by a walking frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response, First Minister John Swinney told the chamber that Scotland had the capacity to absorb and overcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-661555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}