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Is there anything else that the Executive, local authorities or parents can do to tackle the problem of children buying unhealthy food from shops close to school at lunch times?
The more general issue follows what energy companies say, which is that they now buy their gas for next year, so there is some truth in Christine Grahame's point.
If we want to shift freight from road to rail, the opportunities for us lie primarily in transporting containers of cased goods to global markets. You are right. We buy some 460,000 tonnes of cereals. We have a policy of buying from farmers in Scotland and some 90 per cent of our raw materials come from Scotland.
The provisions of part III, on facilities, services and goods, will be enforced in 2004, as will those on the letting, buying, selling and managing of land and premises.
For example, it would favour the vast estates of empty land on which the huge mansion would provide only a peppercorn tax, rather than the communities that sought to regenerate after exercising their right to buy. How would one value the Cuillins?
On islands, we also have a problem because of our inability to compete with people who want to buy holiday homes. Those people constantly outbid the local island population.What is the answer?
For instance, out of the blue, I have had offers of quite large sums of money to buy instruments for a travelling persons music project.The result of the discrimination is that the family has appalling health problems.