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Most of them were "closed" with no further action possible in this parliament.

But two significant ones are to be continued.

Cheap alcohol MSPs called for more research into so-called "flat head baby syndrome" or plagiocephaly.

The executive, on the very day of the committee meeting, published a leaflet on the condition, containing advice for parents against leaving their babies lying for too long in one position, in car seats for example.

The committee also wants to take forward its 1000th petition, from the pupils of All Saints' Secondary School in Glasgow, complaining about the availability of cheap alcohol.

A new petition arrived this week from another school in Glasgow, Lourdes Secondary.

It is protesting at another dawn raid and impending deportation of 12 year old Grace Waku.

Lourdes Secondary School petitioned parliament over a dawn raid Her family fled from the Congo and for the last six years have been living in Scotland awaiting the outcome of their asylum application.

At question time, the first minister said he could not intervene in individual cases but he confirmed that Scottish ministers have written to the Home Office in London demanding that the immigration service take the interests of children more into account when they decide on deportation.

"Some families have been in this country so long that their young boys...

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