"I don't believe in taking notes. I see other coaches do it, but I don't want to miss any part of the game.

The vaulted space of one ammunition storage chamber is crammed with a floor to ceiling array of 500 bizarre clay sculptures and found objects - including the artist's trainers, a likeness of Kurt Cobain and a fig tree growing out of a football - while any lingering echo of architectural grandstanding is firmly dispelled on the threshold by an initial encounter with the craggy backside of a gigantic clay elephant which tumbles head first into the wall of the building: a metaphor for the weight of art history or architectural hubris, depending on your point of view.

Mr Carmichael, who replaced fellow Liberal Democrat Michael Moore in Mondays UK government cabinet reshuffle, dismissed claims that independence would make Edinburgh a "proper" capital and bring a major jobs boost.

Skills Minister revealed that the Traineeships scheme, which began in August and provides skills and experience to 16 to 23-year-olds to help them in the labour market, will receive the substantial financial boost for participants over 19 years old.

She told the Telegraph at the time: "When you are 15 or 16 and you want to fit in and wear nice things, but you don't have any and put on your school uniform even when you are allowed to be in your own clothes, nothing matters more."