A Scots MP yesterday moved to quell a mini-Civil War in the House of Commons over the name of a new Bermuda/Britain parliamentary pressure group.

And Ian Davidson said the UK Commonwealth Parliamentary Association group designed to promote better relations between the UK and the Island was called the British-Bermudian branch -- not Anglo-Bermudian.

A squabble broke out after Internet printouts of a Royal Gazette story using the Anglo-Bermudian name did the rounds at the Palace of Westminster.

And the story of the name game was picked up by The Herald -- the top-selling quality newspaper in Scotland.

But Mr. Davidson -- who visited the Island as part of a UK Parliamentary delegation in January -- said: "As a Scot in Bermuda, I was certainly concerned by the way lots of people kept referring to England and assuming it was the same thing as Britain.'' And he insisted the original description of Anglo -- English -- Bermudian was an error.

Mr. Davidson said: "It's not a mistake I would allow to happen and go uncorrected. I can confirm it was originally booked in the all-party notice as the a.g.m. of the British Bermuda group.

"That's how it will continue to be titled and I'm sure it will go from strength to strength.'' He added that he was very conscious of sensitivities among the UK Celtic minorities -- the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish -- of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Davidson added that he had even asked Belmont Hotel bosses to rename a water hazard named after his uncle, the late Ian Crowe, golf professional at the Warwick resort for many years, to reflect their Scots heritage.

He said: "The stretch of water which was to be named after my uncle was Lake Crowe.

"I pointed out he was Scottish and it had to be called Loch Crowe -- and that's what it is.'' The name used by mistake raised eyebrows among some MPs -- particularly pro-independence ones from Scotland.

Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, said: "Anglo means English and clearly that's not what they mean.'' He added that Scotland and Wales -- currently gearing up for elections to devolved Parliaments -- were developing "a more distinctive identity.'' And he said that he was sure "people would be more careful what they say'' in the future.

The new group is successor to the British-Bermuda Society set up at Westminster by former Conservative MP Rupert Allason, who owned a house on the Island.

But the group fell away some years ago -- leading Mr. Davidson to highlight the Island's low profile while on the CPA visit in January.

The new Scottish Parliament -- to be set up in the summer -- will be the first to sit in Scotland since the Act of Union between the Scots and English Parliament was passed in Edinburgh in 1707.