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Day: March 8, 2020

SNP COMMUNITIES SECRETARY TO QUIT HOLYROOD

March 8, 2020 heaneymedia

BBC Scotland is reporting that Scottish government minister Aileen Campbell, right,  is to step down at the next Holyrood election to spend more time with her family.

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CONTROVERSY OVER LOBBY FIRM ‘HYPOCRISY’

March 8, 2020 heaneymedia

In July, 2019, Baillie Gifford hosted a climate roundtable meeting at the Edinburgh Science Festival, of which it was a “headline sponsor“. Four of the firm’s representatives attended: Andrew Telfer, Michael Pye, Tim Garratt and Diane Esson.

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  • ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP
  • Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond
  • BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

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REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

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ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN
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Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

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ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

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Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Boat began to sink between Inchmurrin Island and the Boturrich shoreline on Sunday A helicopter helped rescue three people who were trapped on a boat

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BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

Biography Having a Reputation A new biography of James Bryce, one-time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied

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LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today set out how his party will legislate to make schools smartphone-free environments, as part

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Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

by Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has today outlined his party’s plans to tackle Scotland’s pothole epidemic, which he says is “a monument to two decades

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