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That is what they have knowingly bought into; if they did not want a warden or a call facility, they would simply buy an ordinary flat.You suggest that we should strengthen the protection for people in sheltered housing.
I cannot envisage Scottish leaders turning up at party conferences to receive grateful thanks for saving the union getting any merit or ground at all if they argue that there is a new, as yet unspecified bill to pay for that.Fearing the UK Independence Party, no Westminster party—none—will tell voters in England that a top priority is to give Scotland more ...
Is the member familiar with that and the detail that it goes into?12:30 I have looked at it from top to toe; I was encouraged to do so by Mr MacAskill.
I believe that the reforms are another example of a progressive shift away from a top-heavy structure to a focus on the front-line provision of community safety and law enforcement.Of course, the fact that we are restructuring our police service is not an admission that something is drastically wrong and that a radical shift is required.
They devised the strategy for what we did thereafter. That is the lower end.At the top end, when we are talking about international money laundering and fraud, there are covert internet investigators in the Scottish police service who carry out such investigations.
I turn to the issue of school closures. The subject remains at the top of the agenda nationally and in local communities across the country, and I make no apology for making a direct plea to the cabinet secretary about the proposal by East Renfrewshire Council to close Robslee primary school.
Recently, we did a poll of 3,000 visitors to our website—who are meant to be advanced drivers, of course—and, surprisingly, the top reason that they gave for speeding was that they did not agree with the limit that had been set.
The short answer is that there can be a difference. The buy-to-let market grew greatly during the past few years and there are various provisions whereby borrowers are meant to advise lenders that the mortgage is for a buy-to-let property.