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Official Report
Meeting date:
10 March 2011
Meeting of the Parliament 10 March 2011
It would not matter whether the new chief constable of a single Scottish police division was based in the last house in John o’ Groats; the decisions that are made at a local level will be based on the divisional structures in the local communities.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 March 2011
Meeting of the Parliament 02 March 2011
We may well have the expertise in Dingwall, Inverness or Golspie, but try to reach out to a primary school near Cape Wrath at Durness or one at Canisbay near John o’ Groats and the miles clock up. It is no accident that we have a debate later today on fuel duty.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 September 2009
Plenary, 02 Sep 2009
I am asking you now not to walk out on them.I started with Rab Wilson's poem, so perhaps it is appropriate to end with a clip from Robert Burns, who wrote:"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 May 2008
Plenary, 01 May 2008
At the outset, I will quote the great Hamish Henderson, who, in "The Freedom Come All Ye", said:"So come all ye at hame wi' FreedomNever heed whit the hoodies croak for doom In yer hoose a' the bairns o' AdamCan find breid, barley-bree an painted room".In the Scots mind, the connection is made between freedom and food, and between our domestic concern for f...
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 November 2007
Plenary, 29 Nov 2007
There is also the recently refurbished home of John Davidson, village souter, who was immortalised as Souter Johnny in Robbie Burns's "Tam o Shanter".As well as history and scenery, there are a great number of activities in the south, such as mountain biking.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 June 2009
Plenary, 11 Jun 2009
Margo MacDonald's point is well made. For example, I took O grades; other people have taken other Scottish certificates, standard grades and so on.
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 September 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 10 September 2013
We should remember that not just the “flooers o’ the forest”, however important they were, but ordinary people lost their lives.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 September 2012
Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee 12 September 2012
Whether in Ayrshire—I was at a recent meeting there—Peebles, Perth, Kirkwall or the John o’ Groats centre, VisitScotland is engaged and accessible all round Scotland.Where there are difficulties—for example the new VisitScotland website has had some teething problems—these guys have gone to see individual B and B owners.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 March 2015
Education and Culture Committee 24 March 2015
and you say, “I’m a teacher,” and the driver says, “Oh, I got no O grades,” and you say, “Well, that’s one or two qualification systems back,” and you wonder whether there is an understanding of that.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 February 2014
Meeting of the Parliament 26 February 2014
I know from speaking to people who were around in the education system at the time of the change from O grades to standard grades that there were concerns and there were predictions that things would not work, yet the transition took place and worked effectively.That is not to say that we can simply assume that that will happen, but if we look at the interv...
