Whoever heard of anyone spending £ millions on a project they would be told little or nothing about? Step forward then West Dunbartonshire Council.
Who else? You may well ask, but the basket case local authority who can be depended on to be right in there when it comes to spending other people’s money on pie in the sky projects. The secrecy obsessed SNP administration would rather you were not aware of progress – or the lack of it – on an A82 relief road into Dumbarton from the Dunglass roundabout.
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Hat tip Keith Geddes
COMPANIES MAKING PROFITS OUT OF RAPE MISERY
Assistant Chief Constable Gillian MacDonald of Police Scotland said the lengths of time mobile telephones were retained were specific to individual investigations.
She added: “We recognise the inconvenience this may cause and are working with partners to address this. We have proposals to introduce cyber kiosks that would help speed up this process, and in some cases prevent the need to retain devices.
DON ROBERTO AND ME
Imagine how hard it might be to uphold values such as these if we were to remain part of an isolated UK in the hands of free-booting, right-wing, English nationalists. There is then only one possible choice on the ballot paper, the party whose founding president Don Roberto became in 1934, the Scottish National Party.
KIRKTONHILL RESIDENTS RAGING OVER CHURCH PLANS FOR CHILDREN’S HOME
Serious concern about this ensued amongst residents, who called meetings to discuss the proposal – and make clear their opposition to the Kirk’s plans for the house. One woman, when she heard there was a distinct possibility that teenage boys and girls with records of questionable behaviour would be moving in next door to her declared that she would be getting out.
GENERAL ELECTION: WILLIAM KEEGAN ON ECONOMIC ISSUES
Wilson was a skilled strategist and tactician. Whether or not David Cameron – less serious, and essentially a public relations man – was consciously trying to emulate Wilson (in going over the heads of his Eurosceptical wing, John Major’s “bastards”) I have no idea. But he made a real mess of it, and we are where we are: not to put too fine a point on it, we are the laughing stock of the world, and the British polity is up the creek.