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Journalists are interesting graduates because they tend to know what they want to do much earlier than others do. We have to pitch higher education provision in the universities for people who do not necessarily know until they get to the third or fourth year of a university course what they want to do—apart from to graduate, which is usually their foundati...
The point is whether that will continue to be the case. It might be more appropriate to pitch your question to ministers than to local government, because funding is a critical element of the equation.
Over the years, facilities have not been maintained as well as they could have been, which would have made them last longer.The £2.1 billion relates to swimming pools, pitches, sports centres and the whole gamut of facilities.
Amendment 18 was sought by Renfrewshire Council to ensure that public access to the football pitches on both sides of St James park is maintained once the park is bisected by the viaduct.
South Lanarkshire Council has two official travelling persons sites, which can accommodate approximately 28 pitches, and a couple of unofficial sites, which operate a total of about 33 pitches.
It is like having a product to market and sell: if your sales pitch focuses on cycle training, and you are telling people that cycling is a wonderful thing and that they should do it, you must have a product behind that.
It was clear from their opening statements that Mr MacCallum and Mr Clark do not think that the 25 per cent target is nearly high enough. Where would they have pitched the percentage reduction in public bodies?
The disruption that is caused when a perfectly good service, which everybody is happy with, is put out to tender in order to shave another 50p off the hourly rate seems to indicate that that should not be the way forward. Our pitch was for five-year contracts for public services as a minimum.