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Even though, historically, it probably took only 26 minutes, the fact is that now the journey is 25 minutes long, plus or minus two minutes, whereas before it was 26 minutes, plus up to half an hour more.
Around 1 per cent of self-employed adults in Scotland are estimated to earn their living through crafts. I had the pleasure of visiting the Orkney islands only yesterday, where I saw some excellent examples of such work.
Only last week, Allan Wilson met fishing industry representatives in Edinburgh and told them that he expected to make the announcement on the changes by the end of last week or, at the latest, by the beginning of this week.
Contribution levels were increased in 2003-04 to reflect a new calculation methodology and to take account of the increased lifespan of scheme members.