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She is right about that, but some mechanisms in the bill provide for central control—I suppose that old habits die hard. COSLA has made the point that planning authorities are perfectly well equipped to produce their own supplementary planning guidance to deal with local circumstances.
If we are serious about dealing with issues around social exclusion, the fact that people who live in the most deprived areas were nearly six times more likely to die from causes related to alcohol than people who live in more affluent areas were should concern us all.One need only visit an accident and emergency department for a few minutes before a member...
What will happen if a person's advance statement says that they do not wish to receive a specific treatment, but, in the doctor's opinion, the patient will die without that treatment? That is an extreme but possible scenario.
Are they saying that the gamekeepers are lying about the facts that mothers are shot and that calves are left to starve, and that foetuses that are almost fully developed die within their mothers in a horrible way?
We cannot allow commercial shipbuilding to die in this country. I do not think that that will happen; I think that the Government will wake up and realise that the order must go to Scotland.
It is quite scandalous that we will soon commemorate armistice Sunday when we know that a drop in temperature—one point on the thermometer— means that 800 old people in Scotland will die, cold and in misery. They are the little brothers and sisters of that great ghost army.
However, I continue to do it because old habits die hard.I inform the minister that I have seen a huge change in attitudes towards exercise and physical education.