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We have stood on various sites and looked at the different options, so I feel that I know more about the A83 and the intractability of many of these problems than I do about the subjects of many other petitions.
A study in Europe found that people who were exposed to dirtier air spent as many as four days longer in hospital and were 36 per cent more likely to need intensive care treatment.
Victims and the public will rightly ask why it has taken so long for this deep injustice to be corrected. Multiple political parties and many individuals should have, and could have, acted sooner.
Harris Development Ltd summed up the views of many island communities when it said: “It is sheer arrogance for desk bound ‘experts’ to suggest that we are not looking after our environment and protecting our stocks.
In preparing our report, and during the passage of the bill, we talked a lot about how many incidents were reported, the conversion rate from charges to prosecutions and convictions, and what the sentences looked like.
I think that the SCTS quoted 58 as the total number of motions for a fully virtual trial. Not many of them went on to be virtual. In fact, about half of them were converted to in-person trials, so the request was not granted or the decision was made not to proceed with a virtual one.