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Thus, following reorganisation, the council tax payers of the far north found themselves having to pick up their share of a post-dated cheque that increased the geographical imbalance in sports facilities.That takes me to where we are today.
I find it deeply regrettable that, as the country seeks to recover from the recession, the United Kingdom Government, of which David McLetchie is a keen supporter, is slashing the Scottish Government’s capital budget by more than a quarter next year.
I am interested in any lessons that you might have learned from the programme to date. In particular, I would like to know about any barriers that you have had to overcome.
Obviously, I would want to look at more up-to-date figures for you, but the Home Office's 2004 evidence states that 22 per cent of 10 to 17-year-olds who drank alcohol obtained it from bars and pubs.