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I am a retired Government fisheries biologist from Pitlochry. For my evil sins, I have been made the vice-chairman of one of the committees of the Scottish Anglers National Association.
I have been involved in the industry for 20-plus years, and I think that the Scottish press should not automatically be punished—that is how it reads to me—for sins that have been going on elsewhere.
Common good assets cover a multitude of sins. The one that we have looked at most during the meeting is Waverley market, which clearly had a public use.
However, in the last few decades, average life expectancy in Scotland has not improved at the same rate as elsewhere.1 Fenton, L., Minton, J., Ramsay, J., Kaye-Bardgett, M., Fischbacher, C., Wyper, G., … McCartney, G. (2019).
The situation may be better now, but I am not aware of that. The other problem that l think all members have encountered in different areas is that the time taken to deal with what you described means that less consultation time is available for everybody in the community, including newcomers.
Apparently, that is all right but, as soon as I dare to issue my own notepaper with "Alasdair Morgan (SNP)" on it, the panoply of the Parliament descends upon me as if I have committed some heinous sin. Now that the requirement not to identify party affiliation on stationery is to come out of the code of conduct, it would be a good move for the SPCB to revi...
If members are interested, I can share with them an extract from the text of a lecture relating to the contractual complexities and a view on what the solution is, which was given jointly by Professor George L Gretton and Professor Kenneth Reid to Scottish solicitors around the country in January and February of 2009.I have, however, reached an impasse in m...
Sexual activity before marriage was sinful, certainly for women, and a likely punishment was pregnancy, which would lead to the woman being shunned by the community.