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Health Secretary Neil Gray has said he is sorry he did not go to a "wider range" of football matches after using ministerial cars to attend four Aberdeen games.

The Scottish Conservatives accused him of having a "jolly to watch the football" at taxpayers' expense.

The SNP MSP added: “I am a football fan. I follow Aberdeen. But I should not have allowed the impression to be given that this played any role in my engagements and I am sorry for my error.”

He played football and baseball and was a top scorer on his district-champion basketball team and took his life lessons about the natural limits of the world from the challenges of managing crop rotations in the family fields near Saginaw Bay.

The decrease was due to an increase in college football rights costs, which upped the company’s production and programming spending, as well as lower affiliate revenue from fewer subscribers, the company said.