SCOTLAND: St Andrews students to apologise to Obama

The Conservative Association at the University of St Andrews is to write to US President Barack Obama to apologise after an effigy of him was burned, reports the BBC. The incident is understood to have taken place on 18 November on the Fife town's East Sands beach.

A statement from St Andrews University called it "naive and crassly insensitive". It said the president of the Conservative Association had been quick to make an unreserved public apology. A spokesperson for St Andrews University confirmed that no further disciplinary action would be taken against the students involved or the president of the association.

The statement said the university was satisfied that the action was "not intentionally racist". It said: "This incident however has caused very understandable offence and concern to many people and the university deeply regrets this."
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