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The budget mentions"developing and delivering anticipatory care for those ‘at risk' wherever they live"and"increasing health care services delivered in disadvantaged communities".That is welcome.
Something simple like that would enable people to tick a box without declaring how poor they were, living on a pension in 2011. That is an interesting idea that we can reflect on.
The SSPCA has said:"The Society is opposed to the extended transport of live food animals for slaughter. The Society advocates slaughter as close as possible to the point of rearing.
In talking about the scheme, we are talking about small beer or small change and yet, as has been so rightly pointed out, the scheme underpins and impacts on crofters' lives, particularly on the beef front.
It is crucial for a national park to have the full support of the people who live and work in the area. The idea is not to turn the area into a museum—these are living, working communities.
Our economists would challenge some of the assumptions that were made in that study, one of which was that people who live in Galashiels spend all their money there.