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However, if crofters can get a grant of only £11,500 in a low-priority area, they cannot readily get a building society or bank loan, because, unless the land is decrofted, there is no security of tenure.
The agency may be welcome, but I hope that it will not be the only outcome of the social economy policy review and that such a wider plan will include a range of support measures for social firms.In talking about social firms and the co-operative movement, we should acknowledge the extent of corporate social responsibility activities by many small and large private firms, such as Lloyds TSB and the Bank...
Next week, on 15 January, salmon anglers will gather on the banks of the Tay and the Ness. The wild Atlantic salmon is one of Scotland's most precious resources.
The participants in the E C Harris conference certainly identified that as a vital issue for them. The banks like to finance big deals, which means that health boards' capital spending priorities become determined not by clinical priorities or health needs but by the demands of the banks.
Many juries struggle with situations in which a wife has remained with the man who is alleged to have raped her over the years. She may have gone on holiday and shared Christmases with him.
Our hearts, too, go out to the families of the thousands of people who are dead and missing and to the millions who have been affected by the greatest natural disaster in living memory, and to the friends and relatives of the Scottish people who lost family members in that few minutes of destruction that swept the holiday beaches of the Indian ocean on boxi...
He said that aircraft take Scots out of Scotland to holidays elsewhere and take more people away from Scotland than they bring in, whereas the Superfast Ferries service has succeeded at bringing people into Scotland, yet there is no suggestion that we will invest more in ferry routes.
Sandra Casey is very vexed that she cannot be here today, because she is on a pre-planned holiday. The issue is wide—it is about more than the hospital consultants and the GPs who want to create a high standard of service; it is about a range of people who love their community.