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Those clubs sit at the heart of the local community and have facilities that, with a wee bit of extra investment, could be opened up for much wider benefit.Those clubs are working to become community football clubs under the Scottish Football Association scheme.
The manager at Asda in Maryhill tells me that, for the first few months, they had to spend extra time and effort explaining that the bays were designated and why.
For example, if a particular school has made strenuous efforts in extra-curricular and sporting activities, but those are not supported by the community, parent group or local authority resources, we cannot do much more.
We will shortly run out of capacity, so there must be investment. We need to add a wee bit extra to make the links high speed and thereby increase the benefit to a much greater extent.
I support that, and I know that the issue is dear to the heart of Norman Leask, who is in the gallery today. The suggestions to give extra support to young entrants and to support diversification through the CCAGS are measures for which I have long campaigned.
That turned into a pledge to put the equivalent of 1,000 extra officers on the street. It has now become a pledge to recruit 500 more officers and to redeploy and retain 500 others.I believe that you said today that you would put 1,000 additional police officers into our communities.
We can tackle that area in Scotland: if we build it into the food policy—the approach should not be a by-product or an extra—we can bring about serious reductions in our CO2 emissions.
That is a good link to consider.It would be churlish not to recognise the work of the new Scottish Government in putting extra funding into the project—I certainly acknowledge it—but we also need to acknowledge the other long-term issues in further and higher education.
Does the member share my surprise at the extra year's delay in the western peripheral route, given the fact that, only two weeks ago, the minister told me that there was no review and no prospect of delaying the route?