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Official Report
Meeting date:
27 April 2005
Plenary, 27 Apr 2005
He told us that the Bank of Scotland was established in 1695 and that the last person to die in a duel was a bank manager from Kirkcaldy. I did not know that. O ye banks and bears!—braes, I mean.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 December 2004
Education Committee, 01 Dec 2004
He is a bright kid, but he is not exceptional in any way, and I was able to throw in a bit of French as well, with my poor O level. If we are able to train people so that they have a multilingual brain at an early stage, they might leave Gaelic-medium primary school or a primary school where they have learned Gaelic as a subject and go out into the world an...
Official Report
Meeting date:
16 June 2004
Education Committee, 16 Jun 2004
However, when jobs are advertised employers still seek O-levels, which never existed in Scotland, even in the old days of standard grades.Nationally, we must recognise the transferable, soft, human and attitudinal skills that are so valued by the world of work.
Official Report
Meeting date:
16 May 2001
Plenary, 16 May 2001
Corrie was referred to by T S Eliot as"the greatest Scots poet since Burns",yet he is all but forgotten.I will wind up with a small snatch from Joe Corrie's "The Image o' God", which is etched into the stone slabs in Glenrothes and into the hearts and minds of miners and their families everywhere."
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 February 2000
Plenary, 02 Feb 2000
A study of Irish history tells of the Whiteboys, the Steelboys, the Oakboys, the Peep o' Day Boys and, last but not least, the Apprentice Boys.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 October 1999
Plenary, 06 Oct 1999
No matter what the spin is, if you have a pun o mince, ye might heat it up but it is still mince.
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 March 2005
Plenary, 17 Mar 2005
Although there are still many myths about the lad o pairts tradition to which Lord James Douglas-Hamilton referred, that was not the reality before formal state education was provided by local authorities.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 February 2005
Plenary, 03 Feb 2005
Scottish Water achieved only 38 per cent of the score of the worst-performing water company in England.If the Executive fails to get to grips with a proper energy policy for the future and fails to make its mind up soon about where our power will come from, we run the risk of the lights going out as well. It will be a case of "O power of Scotland, when will...
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 November 2004
Communities Committee, 10 Nov 2004
I was working with a community in Brig o' Turk to try to develop four houses, but because that was too small a number the plan was never going to get to the drawing board.
Official Report
Meeting date:
15 January 2004
Plenary, 15 Jan 2004
I know that it is coming up to the Burns season and that he is a good Ayr man, but instead of reciting "Tam O' Shanter", I am sure that he could probably recite by heart the draft constitution.
