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A constituent of mine, Alan, shared the experience of his son, Frankie, with me. Frankie had first-hand experience of the misunderstandings that Tourette’s can bring in education settings.
Some years ago, the languages tree in my son’s primary school had 46 leaves, to represent the 46 languages that were spoken in his school and the mix of nationalities that had settled in the north-east.
Companies such as West Fraser and James Jones and Sons, which plans to invest a staggering £70 million in Mosstodloch, and £150 million in 2022, are some of the largest investors in Scotland.
I say this as a husband, a father and a son: families entrusted their husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters into the care of the health service and were let down.
One thing that we have in common is our personal experience of the maternity unit, given the fact that my younger son was born there with consultant intervention.
He said that one of his father’s friends had never spoken to his son since the miners strike. If they saw each other in the street, they would cross the road to avoid each other.