The Scotsman reports that the Lib Dems are going to come to the rescue of the SNP to ensure that the council tax is replaced by a local income tax in Scotland: SNP ministers are prepared to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats which … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog...
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Good news, bad news, up and down. Volatility is increasing and it’s easy to get stuck on the wrong side of a trade. From the July 1 lows the S&P rallied over 100 points. Since the August 9 highs, the S&P dropped as much as 90 points. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results...
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But the real growth of the SNP since the 1970s has exactly coincided with the rebirth of classical liberalism in England(*again untrue*). Before that, the two nations could just about get along. Since then, they have pulled inevitably apart . … In Scotland, the EU is overwhelmingly popular. Its statism is both understood and...
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And a Scottish Labour Party under the uncharismatic Iain Gray which seems even more bereft of ideas, but which thinks it can win next year’s Scottish Parliament elections by posing as the more effective defender of Scottish interests … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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ROYAL BANK JOB LOSSES : IS THIS THE START OF A MISERABLE WINTER? – *Royal Bank of Scotland has just announced that in a further move to reduce costs another 3500 jobs will go across the UK. Of course as the bank is 80+% … 1 day ago. CALEDONIAN COMMENT … Another day at...
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MORE than eight out of ten Scots believe the taxpayer should not have to foot the bill for Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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The most radical reorganisation yet of the public sector in the Highlands and Islands is being proposed. View full article Politics
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Chair appointed. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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At first, the local campaigns in Scotland, where the poll tax was first introduced and the campaign began, were disparate without any central co-ordination. Then, at our initiative, in the West of Scotland 96 community organisations and … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Peterborough Today Alex Salmond in eco callThe SunFIRST Minister Alex Salmond yesterday called on Scotland's financial services industry to help pump cash into green projects to boost the economy and save …Salmond hails low carbon projectsThe Press AssociationAlex Salmond says renewables will help beat the recessionScotsmanall 25 news articles » View full article “Alex Salmond”...
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Umstrittener Neubau: “Stuttgart-21?-Gegner besetzen Bäume | Champions League – Glück für Bayern und Schalke, Pech für Werder | Umstrittener Neubau: “Stuttgart-21?-Gegner besetzen Bäume | Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) erzielt ersten Quartalsgewinn seit Krisenbeginn | Umstrittener Neubau: “Stuttgart-21?-Gegner besetzen Bäume | Equinet belässt Interseroh auf ….. Umstrittener Neubau: “Stuttgart-21?-Gegner besetzen Bäume. DGAP-DD: SNP Schneider-Neureither...
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A WINTER of unrest has taken a step closer after members of the largest council union, Unison, voted to explore taking industrial action over the imposition of a three-year pa View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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More Nats Fewer Nurses. More Nats Fewer Nurses Click on the image to sign Labour’s petition to defend NHS jobs against SNP cuts … Iain Gray : Working for Scotland : single click on the video to play it … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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This Saturday sees what is arguably the highlight – and certainly the high point – of the UK hill-running calendar: the Ben Nevis race. There are several events longer in distance than its 14km, and several involving more than its 1360 metres of ascent – the Stuc a’Chroin race (22km, 1500m) and the Paps...
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What is this story really about? I’ve been re-reading the Guardian story about the phone-hacking at the News of the World, as reported in the New York Times extraordinary feature. Even allowing that we had a full-scale spread on the story by the Guardian earlier this year, this story has not been altogether drowned...
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And think about it! How is there going to be a ‘recovery’ whilst this is not getting sorted out. Think about it and use the information to effect policy. (someone tell the SNP please.) Does Our Economy Really Have to Run on Fraud? … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Gordon Brown has announced plans to work on worthy projects to increase global access to education and the internet in a pointed message that he has no intention, yet, to respond to Tony Blair’s savage attack on his personality and premiership. View full article Politics
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Aberdeen City Council’s chief executive Sue Bruce is offered the same role at City of Edinburgh Council. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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Views sought on planned changes to election administration. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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Ministers say changes to council elections could help prevent a repeat of voting problems that marred the 2007 election. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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The threat of a pay dispute at Scotland’s councils has moved a step closer, it emerges. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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Abandoning the party’s long-standing policy of equidistance was always bound to cause ructions, with Scottish Liberal Democrats like Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy favouring a coalition with Labour. But with the Liberal Democrats’ … View full article “Scottish Liberal Democrats” – Google Blog Search
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Ross, Skye & Lochaber Conservative & Unionist Association. Skip to Content ?. Home · Future · Contact · Conservative Party · Scottish Conservatives. RSL Conservatives Rotating Header Image … View full article “Scottish Conservatives” – Google Blog Search
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Scottish Labour win marked end of Clause IV The Scottish Labour conference in 1995 marked the first major victory in Tony Blair’s campaign to modernise the. View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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THE SNP has finally come clean about what level the minimum price for alcohol will be set at. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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Unlike the SNP we will fight for justice and the rights of victims and innocent people to be put above those of the criminal. We will fight to end mass immigration into Scotland and to escape the clutches of the EU. … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Changes to local council elections could help ensure there is no repeat of the voting problems which marred the previous ballot, a Scottish Government minister said today. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Foreign Secretary William Hague has refused to explain why he had shared a hotel room with a 25-year-old male aide, which led to claims they had a relationship, as a senior Tory criticised the cabinet minister’s “poor judgment”. View full article Politics
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I am not someone who takes alarmist stances but I am not essentially really penetrating to see heavy-duty military methods alien from the Metropolitan Police or in truth American-style policing in Scotland,” he said. … Tasers are personal as weapons underneath firearms legislation, that the SNP wants devolved to the Scottish Parliament.Mr MacAskill said:...
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When you’re in a position of privilege and responsibility like the leader of the council in Scotland’s capital city you have a duty to strive always to be worthy of the office, you should always be asking whether when all is said and … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Veteran politician Cyril Smith has died at the age of 82, it was announced today. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Plans to charge drinkers a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol have been branded illegal and ineffective. View full article Politics
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The reason we have almost 2500 fewer teachers in Scotland and only 11 per cent of newly qualified teachers have obtained permanent posts is because of the SNP’s mis-management of Scotland’s education system and their broken promises. … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Food and Drink Fortnight launches. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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The Centre-Left Grasroots Alliance (which includes the Scottish Labour Womens Network and LRC Scotland) are backing Maria Fyfe, Ann Henderson, Jim Mackechnie and Gordon McKay who have 27 nominations between them compared with 10 for the … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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Trade figures slam SNP’s 45p price plan. Minimum pricing move in Scotland faces on and off-trade criticism. Scotland’s proposal for a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol has been slammed by supermarket chiefs and trade figures. … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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S3M-06903 Stuart McMillan (West of Scotland) (SNP): That the Parliament welcomes the Taste of Inverclyde weekend, which takes place from 10 to 13 September 2010; notes Discover Inverclyde is launching the four-day event, … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Gordon Brown is preparing to make his full parliamentary comeback on Monday as the storm over accusations made against him by Tony Blair continues to rage. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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The Tories returned to Ravenscraig yesterday, a generation after Margaret Thatcher’s Government announced the closure of the biggest steel plant in western Europe. View full article Politics
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The Scottish government has today proposed that the minimum price of a unit of alcohol should be 45p. Scotland’s Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon finally set a price today after months of deliberations. It will be included in the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) Alcohol Bill. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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Both Labour and the SNP have local and national government representatives amongst close family members in various parts of the country. I consider it deeply worrying. This may have been common in the Conservative Party in the past, … The “People’s Party” and the political party aiming for separation of Scotland from the UK...
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Cohabitation isn’ta problem either; the SNP majority in Scotland has not prevented the current Conservative-Lib Dem Coalition from governing the UK. The sensible answer to the West Lothian question is an English Parliament. View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Extra £300,000 to assist relief effort in Pakistan. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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Foreign Secretary William Hague said his decision to deny publicly speculation about a gay affair with an aide was “not an easy thing to do”. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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For most people, switching satellite TV provider is a simple move that saves money. View full article Politics
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Another day at the office – another knife in the back – Yesterday my ward colleague Cllr Rob Merson (SNP) sprang an emergency motion to remove me as Vice Chair of the Formartine Area Committee. To my astonishment… 1 day ago. Braveheart’s Blog … Scotland’s future: Three scenarios. – Hugely impressive video of the...
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Alex and PM will greet the PopeThe SunALEX Salmond and David Cameron will join forces to welcome the Pope to Scotland, it was revealed yesterday. The SNP First Minister and … View full article “Alex Salmond” – Google News
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… will be interviewed at Scotland Yard tomorrow, according to Sky SNP consider minimum alcohol pricing. A minimum price for alcohol of 45p a unit would save Scotland more than £700 million, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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And Blair says of the 2007 Scottish Parliament which saw the SNP become Scotland’s Government and Alex Salmond First Minister: I knew once Alex Salmond got his feet under the table he could play off against the Westminster Government … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Scottish Labour MP John William MacDougall died of mesothelioma on August 13, 2008, after fighting the disease for two years. Australian journalist and news presenter Peter Leonard of Canberra succumbed to the condition on September … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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More Nats Fewer Nurses. More Nats Fewer Nurses Click on the image to sign Labour’s petition to defend NHS jobs against SNP cuts … Iain Gray : Working for Scotland : single click on the video to play it … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Royal Bank of Scotland has just announced that in a further move to reduce costs another 3500 jobs will go across the UK. Of course as the bank is 80+% owned by you and me, saving money would seem to be a good thing. Surely the leaner and meaner the bank can look ….....
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Gordon Brown is preparing to make his full parliamentary comeback on Monday as the storm over accusations made against him by Tony Blair continues to rage. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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“Dyed In Some Wool” puts the case for voting NO When considering the upcoming referendum, AV seems to me not only to be the wrong answer, but the referendum itself is the wrong question. Let’s look at the main reasons for considering a yes vote. I want a more proportional system AV is not...
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After hearing Robert Crawford’s compelling evocation of ‘the poet as bearer of cultural tradition’ at the otherwise often dire Edinburgh Book Festival (bland, corporate, rigid, expensive) and his reading of Clan Donald’s Call to Battle at Harlaw, attention has turned to the role of who can replace the irreplaceable Edwin Morgan. Whilst some think...
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Of the rest, the pro BNP/SNP/Green vote is largely balanced by an anti UKIP vote, who while a small party are largely consisted of reactionary and disillusioned Tories. While a lot can change in politics over the course of a year, … This would explain the smoke-screen of the date chosen for the referendum,...
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The body set up by the Scottish Government to deliver public infrastructure projects has thrown down the gauntlet to critics by producing externally audited figures showing it saved the public purse an estimated £114 million in its first full year. View full article Politics
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Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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Charter to promote interest of tenants. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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The Scottish government says drinkers should be charged a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol as part of efforts to cut consumption. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats are particularly active in the Perth & Kinross Council area, and this site has been established to keep you in touch with what we are doing at local and regional levels. We will be looking forward to the … View full article “Scottish Liberal Democrats” – Google Blog Search
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No the Scottish Conservatives are jumping on the bandwagon and expect our coalition government to follow on as they promote the recovery agenda. It is a shame that they forget you can be a stable dose of treatment and have other forms … View full article “Scottish Conservatives” – Google Blog Search
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A minimum price for alcohol of 45p a unit would save Scotland more than £700 million Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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Newsnet Scotland · Lib Dem attack on ferry scheme described as ‘nonsense’ – SNP MSP Alasdair Allan has accused the Liberal Democrats of ‘making no sense’ after one of their MSPs called the resignation of the Scottish government’. … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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TONY Blair has admitted he was “never a passionate believer” in devolution and that he always thought creating a Scottish parliament was a dangerous path to follow. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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William Hague has revealed his wife has suffered multiple miscarriages as he announced one of his advisers had resigned over “malicious” claims they had a relationship. View full article Politics
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She said: “Unpaid carers who help ill, frail or disabled friends or family are the unsung heroes of Scotland. They don’t ask for praise or recognition and without their care, the person cared for could not continue to live at home. … MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, said: “I hope the Tories look around...
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“I will continue to work to ensure that the highest possible number of Labour members are elected, from both the constituencies and the Regional list in North East Scotland. … “Over the last three years she has worked tirelessly to expose the failings and broken promises of the SNP Administration in Holyrood. “I am...
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Manuscripts telling the story of the… Minimum price ». HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon today… Up to 600 jobs ». UP to 600 jobs are being cut at… 9am Briefing: ». SCOTTISH Labour leader Iain Gray has refused. … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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The admission comes just weeks after it emerged that unemployment in Scotland is now above the UK average. This is a serious blow to thousands of young people across Scotland. We are now three weeks into the new school term and the SNP … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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THE Scottish Government has revealed that it wants to set a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Gordon Brown has told friends he will not hit back over Tony Blair’s withering attack – until after the Labour leadership contest is over. View full article Politics
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Minimum price for alcohol will be 45p per unit. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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Plans to bring in a minimum price per unit for alcohol form a key part of the SNP administration’s bid to tackle Scotland’s drink problem – which is estimated to cost the country £3.56 billion a year. While the policy has won support … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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NYT’s Andy Coulson expose raises big questions about Scotland Yard – The explosive New York Times story is mostly about the News of the World and its practices. But it is also, perhaps more significantly, about Scotland Yard. … Here’s the Top 10: 1 (1) Tom Harris MP 2 (3) Underdogs Bite Upwards 3...
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TONY Blair has admitted he was “never a passionate believer” in devolution and that he always thought creating a Scottish parliament was a dangerous path to follow. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Labour’s leadership contenders united against Tony Blair yesterday, accusing the former Prime Minist View full article Politics
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SNP Westminster Energy spokesperson Mike Weir MP has welcomed news that Ofgem is to investigate energy providers over claims that they are misleading customers persuaded to switch supplier on their doorstep or over the phone. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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For those of you who don’t know of them, James is press officer for the Green MSPs, Jeff has recently left Scotland, and so the SNP, and joined the Green Party of England and Wales. And we are told that Malcolm is moving in the same … View full article snp scotland – Google...
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Herald Scotland. Ewan Fergus 1 Sep 2010. Supermarket giant Tesco is coming under pressure to redevelop a neglected Renfrewshire town centre, following allegations it had close links to a firm accused of letting the area deteriorate. The retailer is facing calls from Wendy Alexander, the local Labour MSP, and Derek Mackay, the SNP leader...
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Finance Secretary stresses Scottish Government will do everything it can to help. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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On Tuesday, the Scottish Labour Party’s alcohol commission published its report into the alternatives to minimum pricing. It recommended a UK-wide “floor price” for alcohol, which would ban drink sales below the total cost of production … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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John Swinney, the SNP Finance Minister, made an effort to down play the cuts, mentioning that other companies, like Tesco are creating jobs in the finance sector of Scotland. The job losses are just a small percentage of what the Fraser … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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A CONTROVERSIAL body established to raise funds for civic building projects has delivered £111 million in savings and benefits, it has been claimed. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Blair admits role in 2007 defeatBBC NewsHe said party leader and First Minister Alex Salmond "would be far harder to remove" than to stop in the first place. "I knew once Alex Salmond got his feet …and more » View full article “Alex Salmond” – Google News
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1. The SNP (led by Alex Salmond) currently have had a minority government in Scotland since 2007. However, Scotland is part of the UK so our national government is Labour (led by Gordon Brown) and has been since 1997. … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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In the first of a wide-ranging three part conversation, Anthony Barnett and Gerry Hassan discuss the state of British politics and democracy and how the left – weak and disorganised in the face of a resurgent neoliberalism – can propose and build alternatives to the dominant dogmas of the past thirty years. Hi Gerry, There...
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More Nats Fewer Nurses. More Nats Fewer Nurses Click on the image to sign Labour’s petition to defend NHS jobs against SNP cuts … Iain Gray : Working for Scotland : single click on the video to play it … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Alex Salmond will not make a real attempt to get his budget passed this year, preferring instead to indulge in a “blame game” ahead of next year’s Holyrood elections, Tavish Scott, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader warned today. Mr Scott launched his attack on the First Minister ahead of key cross-party budget talks at...
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…and what impact has today had on the leadership race?   Hague statement William Hague has issued a statement after the resignation of his special assistant Christopher Myers, which is available here.   Mike Smithson is on holiday and has very limited internet connection Double Carpet View full article politicalbetting.com
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A UK-wide “floor price” should be imposed on the sale of alcohol to tackle Scotland’s excessive drinking culture, a new report has recommended. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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David Cairns MP, we salute you. That was a noble performance on the wireless this morning, discussing Tony Blair’s memoirs. According to Mr Cairns, the real interest in the Blair apologia should lie in his prescription for the future of the Labour Party. Aye, as they would say in Mr Cairns constituency, right. Of...
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Labour accused of passing the buck to Westminster over alcohol – The SNP have accused Labour in Scotland of lacking credibility and avoiding dealing with the nation’s chronic alcohol problem after the commission set u… 10 hours ago … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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A row breaks out over the year’s extension to the Scottish government’s lower cost ferry fares scheme pilot. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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Young people in Uist and Benebecula to benefit from more vocational courses. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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Tony Blair suggests that Scottish Labour might have won the last Holyrood election if he had not been PM and party leader. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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I’ve had enough and I am resigning from the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Thanks for al… 1 year ago. Aitken’s Edinburgh · Back in 5 mins (or so) – A wee computer glitch meant I was suddenly unable to blog for 5 days. … View full article “Scottish Liberal Democrats” – Google Blog Search
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Gordon Brown ought to answer claims made in Tony Blair’s memoir that he effectively blackmailed the former PM according to the SNP. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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1 day ago. SNP Tactical Voting · Compassion Fatigue – From Kenny MacAskill, Aug 2009: “In Scotland, we are a people who pride ourselves on our humanity. “It is viewed as a defining characteristic of Scotland a… 1 day ago … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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The Scottish Labour conference in 1995 marked the first major victory in Tony Blair’s campaign to modernise the party and move it onto the political centre ground, he wrote. Read more here: Scottish Labour win marked end of Clause IV … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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SNP Tactical Voting · Compassion Fatigue – From Kenny MacAskill, Aug 2009: “In Scotland, we are a people who pride ourselves on our humanity. “It is viewed as a defining characteristic of Scotland a… 1 day ago … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Christohper Myers, special adviser to Foreign Secretary William Hague, has resigned despite the pair denying suggetsions that they were in a relationship. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Opposition spokesmen met Finance Secretary John Swinney yesterday to discuss his budget plans, but emerged from the meeting tight-lipped. View full article Politics
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Des McNulty, Labour education spokesman, said: “These figures remind us of the urgent need for action on the fundamental issues facing higher education in Scotland. “Under the SNP, there are over a thousand fewer funded university … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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SNP MSP John Wilson submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament congratulating Airdrie Savings Bank on attracting £10 million funding. A group of Scottish business leaders have put forward financial backing to facilitate greater business … S3M-06887 John Wilson (Central Scotland) (Scottish National Party): £10 Million Investment for Airdrie Savings Bank— That the Parliament...
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New campaign seeks Panel members to help vulnerable children. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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Tony Blair’s long awaited memoirs attracted criticism this morning from union leaders and animal rights activists. They spoke out just hours after the book was released th View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Ed Miliband has “pulled ahead” in the race to become Labour leader, his camp claims, as voting begins today to choose a successor to Gordon Brown. View full article Politics
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“Both of these companies have recently received investment from the Digital Media IP Fund, jointly financed by Scottish Enterprise and Creative Scotland Innovation Fund to encourage co-investment from the private sector to generate … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Stop getting so pissed, blame the SNP, they released him. as for threatening to leave, good go, you and your like cost too much. tommy444able says: 1 September, 2010 at 20:29. @hi262779 for licking the yanks arses over locherbie . dosent matter if we were right or wrong we are all british and scotland...
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I am a member of Labour’s Scottish Executive Committee, a past Chair of the Scottish Labour Party and Secretary to the Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee (STULP). I also manage a team of organising staff responsible for … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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SNP politicians are seeking assurances about 4,000 Scottish shipbuilding jobs after it emerged that defence chiefs are looking at plans to share the use of aircraft carriers w View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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It’s time to properly address Scotland’s unhealthy relationship with alcohol and Labour just isn’t interested. Let’s leave the last word to some international alcohol experts who have written to MSPs encouraging them to support the SNP … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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THE “potentially dangerous” problem of bed blocking returned to Scottish hospitals this summer, with official figures revealing that the number of delayed discharges a View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Tony Blair today tells how he considered sacking Gordon Brown as Chancellor but always concluded such a move could have led to civil war within Labour. View full article Politics
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DC Thomson – Dundee News · DCA · Dundee City Council · Maryfield Ward Blog · New Look Dundee SNP Website · Scotland’s News · Scottish Independence Convention · Scottish Parliament · SNP Main Website · The Dundee Forum … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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Scottish Government encouraging take-up of screen programme. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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It is ludicrous to suggest that replica Louis Vuitton handbags these figures justify the SNP approach on community sentencing. “Claims that re-offending for community sentences is lower don’t stand up to any scrutiny because those who … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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IN FREEZING conditions, Greenpeace campaigners lowered inflatable dinghies into the choppy sea at dawn to battle their way through the Arctic. View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Salmond returns to expo as event hits visitor targetInverness CourierFIRST minister Alex Salmond said yesterday it was possible another housing expo could be held in Scotland after he returned to the Highland Capital to …Legacy hopes for Highlands ExpoBBC NewsSalmond hails success of housing expoAberdeen Press and JournalSalmond hails Housing ExpoScotsmanInverness Courierall 6 news...
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A UK-wide “floor price” should be imposed on the sale of alcohol to tackle Scotland’s excessive drinking culture, a new report has recommended. An alcohol commission set-up by Scottish Labour backed a British ban on drink sales below the … The above, ‘Alcohol Commission’ has cost a fortune and come up with practically the...
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Angus MacNeil, the SNP MP for the Western Isles, has called for a mass online vote for a change in the law, which he denounced as “state sectarianism”, ahead of the Pope’s visit. Introduced in 1701, the Act of Settlement states that no … Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the leader of Scotland’s Catholics, and Joseph...
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Amazon.co.uk Widgets …I’m off to France for a few days First thing in the morning we are taking the Eurostar to Paris and then the TGV to Bordeaux for a short break. As I think I mentioned I had a small operation in July and this took a lot out of me. I won’t...
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“Back soon” is the notice pinned, metaphorically, to the Holyrood doors. But here’s the thing – the problems are exactly the same as prior to the recess. The big issue? It was and is public spending. In October, we get the outcome of the UK government’s comprehensive spending review or CSR. Thereafter – and...
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A commission set up by the Scottish Labour Party has reccomended a minimum price for alcohol should be established throughout the UK to reduce consumption. The Alcohol Commission has recommended a ban on alcohol sales below the total … View full article “Scottish labour” – Google Blog Search
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More Nats Fewer Nurses. More Nats Fewer Nurses Click on the image to sign Labour’s petition to defend NHS jobs against SNP cuts … Iain Gray : Working for Scotland : single click on the video to play it … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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The public is being urged to back a campaign to scrap a 300-year-old law which prohibits Catholics ascending the throne, ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain next month. View full article Politics
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For all that Scotland’s capital city has managed thus far to avoid the worst predictions of a big downturn in its economy, with the dramatic slump in the fortunes of its View full article Scotsman.com News – Politics
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Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has said that “no area is sacrosanct” in the light of the budget reductions about to be imposed by Westminster, as he faces intense pressure from police and the prison service over the looming spending cuts. View full article Politics
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The number of people who re-offended within two years of a conviction reaches its highest level in a decade. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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NHS in Scotland exceeds targets. View full article The Scottish Government News Online – Latest
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A UK-wide “floor price” for alcohol should be established to reduce consumption, says a commission set up by Scottish Labour. View full article BBC News – Scotland politics
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats are particularly active in the Perth & Kinross Council area, and this site has been established to keep you in touch with what we are doing at local and regional levels. We will be looking forward to the … View full article “Scottish Liberal Democrats” – Google Blog Search
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The SNP have demanded clarity over the future of thousands of Scottish shipyard jobs following reports that the Coalition Government may scrap or downgrade one of the two aircraft carriers under construction. View full article Yahoo! News Search Results for snp
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By franklyfrancophone, on August 31, 2010 at 7:49 pm , under Scotland, Scottish politics, UK, UK constitution, UK politics, economy, politics. Tags:Scottish Government, Nouriel Roubini, UK public debt, Scottish National Party, SNP, … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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More Nats Fewer Nurses. More Nats Fewer Nurses Click on the image to sign Labour’s petition to defend NHS jobs against SNP cuts … Iain Gray : Working for Scotland : single click on the video to play it … View full article snp scotland – Google Blog Search
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