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Britain makes fewer films because the tax system discourages film-makers, says Liberal Democrat National Heritage spokesman Robert Maclennan: 'These rules potentially cost us far more than they earn' . . . Bee Gee Robin Gibb jokingly claimed his wife was a lesbian on US radio - America didn't get the joke and spouse Dwina is not amused . . . John Prebble's Landscapes and Memories has won Scotland's richest literature award, the pounds 10,000 McVitie Prize . . .