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Both Benbecula and Wick are looking at becoming satellite launch sites, so they need safe airspace. Benbecula is also host to QinetiQ’s Hebrides range, which means that there is often a huge amount of air activity when tests are taking place.
What is the First Minister’s reaction to the United Kingdom Government’s failure to reconsider the rape clause in its planned reform of tax credits? I am very disappointed. The rape clause is completely unacceptable.
In one lesson, I stood in a plastic tray with one hand on the Van de Graaff generator and the other pointed at a Bunsen burner, and lit the Bunsen burner.
Last year, it dropped to 23 per cent, I think, but it tends to hover at around 25 or 26 per cent. We are obliged to keep prisoners who are on remand separate from convicted prisoners.
Again, the offence would not apply to legitimate expressions of opinion or contestable claims, such as, “I think this would be good—or bad—for our economy.”
In Dundee, a woman living in one of the least deprived communities can expect to live 26 years more of a healthy life than a woman living in one of the more deprived communities.