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Last updated: 13 August 2025

Letter from Cab Sec Transport Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund 08 August 2025

To meet our Climate Change Plan emissions targets, we must move rapidly, work collaboratively and think creatively to see a rapid decrease in emissions. The Scottish Government is currently examining options to introduce regulation to prohibit the registration of new non zero emission buses from a date no earlier than 2030.

Last updated: 4 April 2025

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TIME is BRAIN and it is essential all symptoms are recognised by the public to promote early recognition of stroke and rapid access to treatments such as thrombolysis and thrombectomy.

Last updated: 30 April 2024

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The study findings states: “During childhood, the human brain undergoes rapid development, which makes it vulnerable to the external world experienced by a growing child.

Last updated: 6 February 2024

Minute of the meeting held on 1 November 2023

Post-industrial spaces most likely to be used for housing. • Can rethink how we use spaces and get creative about how we access them – libraries as spaces for music, opening spaces normally closed out of hours etc. • Community archives need support and connections. • Different mechanisms are required in the Culture Strategy. • Role for 20-minute Neighbourho...

Official Report Meeting date: 26 September 2019

Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee 26 September 2019

I think that libraries are the living room of the modern town.

Last updated: 7 March 2023

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S5M-15808 Christine Grahame: Threatened Closure of Newtongrange and Gorebridge Libraries That the Parliament notes with considerable concern the threatened closure of the — libraries at Newtongrange and Gorebridge by Midlothian Council; notes that both libraries, as well as providing modern library services including IT suites, host many local groups, including at Newtongrange Library, which hosts a reminiscence group, Village Voices, a Job Club providing support and advice on CVs and other employment matters, Book Bug for new parents and carers, a Lego club, Peep, a class for mothers and toddlers, among many others; understands that Newtongrange Library is also a registered Third Party Reporting Centre and Keep Safe Building; notes that Gorebridge Library hosts computer classes, a job club, a Citizens Advice Bureau, a knitting group and, for children, Bookbug sessions, a study club, craft and Lego clubs and many more, which, like Newtongrange Library, provides all of these facilities free of charge, and considers that, as with libraries throughout Scotland, these facilities are crucial and that any such closure would be a retrograde step and highly detrimental to local communities and their residents.

Last updated: 24 April 2025

Digital Exclusion and Pensioner Poverty COSLA Response

. - Moreover, many local authorities collaborate with third-party organizations, such as Citizens Advice Scotland, or utilise local libraries, and community hubs, to further broaden offline access points. 1 Whether the Blue Badge application is only available online and if so, whether accessible alternatives have been considered or are to be introduced. - T...

Last updated: 22 January 2024

Minute of meeting held 26 August 2021

Stuart Paterson – Need other MSP’s, brilliant collaboration between Scots & Ulster, SQA, Schools & Libraries etc Professor R Millar – Great hearing all the achievements from Scots Language Group but we need to do more for the children.

Last updated: 18 April 2023

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I attend cultural activities in my local area as an audience member and/or al activities in my local area, I run a centre or participant, I organise cultur premises where cultural activities take place (for example, a library, theatre, community hall, pub or another kind of premises) ivities in your local area as an audience member 10 If you attend cultural...