Yes, it's true, Halifax would have been in the World Class club. This news just makes Halifax look like the city of fools the Beatles sang about all those years ago. From The Herald in Scotland, the stunning truth.

Forget the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid by Glasgow and Abuja - Halifax would have won outright on the first vote. That astonishing claim was made yesterday by a member of the executive board of the Commonwealth Games Federation at their meeting in London.

Louise Martin, chair of Scotland's Commonwealth Games Council, who had presented Glasgow's candidature file in the packed chandeliered ballroom of Langham's Hotel in London the previous day, was stunned.

"He said that if Halifax had still been in a three-way race they pulled out on financial grounds, they would have won on the first vote, which is contrary to everything I had been thinking," said Mrs Martin. "That really put me back.

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