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Judging by representations that have been made to me in the past, people have felt almost as if they were waiting to be served at a bank, although they might have turned up bruised and bleeding.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it envisages preventing antisocial behaviour by people using short-term holiday lets. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22157 on 1 April 2009.
I understand that some of the larger retail outlets already accept the euro in every day transactions. Most banks make available foreign exchange and international banking facilities for many major currencies “ including the euro.
The other dies non are Saturdays and Sundays, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, bankholidays in Scotland and any day which is appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning.
The clean energy package is important to us, and environmental questions are close to our hearts. The banking union and capital markets union initiatives will continue to position Europe as a financial player as well.
Tactics that our members find being used but that are not necessarily illegal are gas bangers, gas guns, inflatable scarecrows, ice, guns discharged over birds, the burning of nests in heather banks and the torching of golden eagle eyries.
We are talking more and more about reasons why there is more uptake of food banks and reliance on payday lenders, and why there are more children in the care system.