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The built legacy cannot apply everywhere, but is there any indication of the sporting legacy in places that were not close to the games but where people saw them on screens? Is there evidence of activity that is taking place because of the games?
Having led evidence from child victims and victims of different ages in the witness box, through closed-circuit television and screens and at remote sites, and having dealt with evidence by commission, I think that the issue is very important.
The environmental information, the science, the research and the modelling that Marine Scotland has done are all there and the developer can focus on any issues. In that way, the screening and scoping at the licensing stage refer back to the plan-making process so that planning and licensing merge together and we minimise doubled activity.
Similarly, there is a range of reasons why people do not turn up, for example, to an anticipatory screening appointment, or a keep-well clinic in their area.
Intriguingly, partly because of an earlier meeting of the committee, I have found myself advising the tenants and residents association of Lockerbie about how to improve the attractions there.
As for the sorcerer’s apprentice, Ed Balls, as Energy Voice reported on 21 January, on visiting Aberdeen, he refused to be “drawn on the specifics” of Labour’s plan for the oil industry.
We have committed to business in the island courts still being carried out by a sheriff, and there will be sheriffs who will visit those courts to carry out the more serious cases over which they have jurisdiction.