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MSPs debate Robert Owen banknotes call

A campaign to feature social pioneer Robert Owen on banknotes is being taken to the Scottish parliament.

MSPs will debate a motion by Labour MSP Bill Butler calling for Owen to feature on Scottish notes in time for the United Nations Year of Co-operatives in 2012.

Owen pioneered co-operative values during his time as mill manager at New Lanark from the late 18thCentury. Child labour was abolished and the workers were provided with homes, education and health care.

Read entire article at BBC