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It is little wonder that a distinguished European academic was quoted in The Scotsman last week as saying: "Gaelic could die out by the end of the century if more children are not encouraged to learn the language".
Nobody in Germany knows how many people die of cancer there, because published German figures are based on 1.7 per cent of the population.The notion that we are poor at treating cancer in Scotland is not based on good evidence.
When one speaks to people who have it, or to members of their family, one discovers that it is a disgusting way to die. It is also, for those people who have a milder form of it, a disgusting way to live.
I always agree with Gordon Jackson's instincts in these matters. But it is not one that you would die in a ditch over. No, it is not. I wonder whether we can seek further clarification of why the Executive has taken the approach it has, given that paragraph 55 of the legal brief states that"the payment of compensation is dependant on Ministers making the or...
We could estimate the size of the sector but, if the registration scheme is effective, that might give us a far better picture.It is important that we do not die in a ditch over the fee level, but it is also important that we set fees at a level that does not mean that it is cheaper to avoid them than it is to engage with the process.
We are giving evidence largely because of the fact that eating disorders are killing the young people of Scotland—up to 20 per cent of those who have an eating disorder may die. I am delighted that we are now becoming aware of that fact and that we are getting together to see how best to reverse that.
Is that necessary, given the small number of licensed conveyancers and the extremely small number—it is a single figure—of complaints involved? I cannot say that we would die in a ditch about that. As a matter of principle, we supported the establishment of the Scottish Conveyancing and Executry Services Board.
She says that she is so miserable that, if it were not for her children, she would rather go back to her country to die than stay in Scotland.Those are just a few of the cases that we see.