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A study by Scottish Borders Council showed that the figure for 1998 was just over 15,000, a drop of about 4.5 per cent compared with the 3 per cent rise in the population of Scottish Borders over the same period.
Last night, while watching a TV programme that compared the health of kids in the 1950s to today's kids, I thought that most parents in the 1950s would have shopped in the local co-op.
This year, there are some encouraging trends on carryings compared with last year. With the possibility of peace in Northern Ireland, it seems likely that carryings on the route may grow further.
If one follows the route of spending, from the enterprise budget, for example, to the agencies, the budgets do not mirror one another in a way that makes them easy to compare. What I am getting at is that there may be difficulties.
It is an unusual ban in the sense that it is lifted as suddenly and unexpectedly as it is imposed compared with some of the deep sea fishing prohibitions that have been introduced from time to time.
Why has Aberdeen been denied a decent bypass over many years when just about every other comparable city in Europe has one? We have perhaps been a bit slow in pressing our case, but that has not been so in recent times.
Dumfries and Galloway has, at 12.8 per cent, the highest mainland level of employment in agriculture. That compares to the Scottish average of 2 per cent.
I do not think that the outcome that could have resulted from Suez is comparable to the Korean war. Tensions have risen in the European Union, as we know from news reports over the past few weeks.