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I am afraid that Lachlan Murdoch McIntosh—my best man—and his wife Jan Reekie were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a village hall in Crail that day.
I congratulate Bill Butler on having secured a members' business debate on Drumchapel table tennis club and its celebration of 20 years as a focal point for sport in north-west Glasgow.Drumchapel sports centre has been an exemplar for the sport of table tennis in Scotland.
They asked, "Why do the followers of John the baptizer and the Pharisees take on the discipline of fasting, but your followers don't?" Jesus said, "When you're celebrating a wedding, you don't skimp on the cake and wine, you feast.
When I receive the task force's final report on 14 December, I know that it will have identified the issues on wood waste and recycled wood.Bill Kidd has brought an important issue to the chamber. The Government recognises and celebrates the work that is being done in Drumchapel.
The event that Americans call the first thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks that the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony had survived their first brutal winter in New England.
At one extreme, for some subjects, they are heavy lobbying bodies; in other areas, they are more cultural and involve the celebration of a relationship. The nature of our relationship with the US and of the Government’s relationship with the US Government is such that we do not have many opportunities for lobbying—nor do we have a great deal of need.
The task that we set ourselves was to take each jewel and roll it out across Scotland, but there was a huge reaction against the mechanism for that—the top-down imposition of saying, "This works well in Stornoway, so you should make sure it happens in Leith"—because of the local priorities approach.The concordat celebrates local priority setting and local f...
As I was on the train this morning, it occurred to me that, to the Scottish Government, the section 13 power is a bit like the statement handbag that anyone who aspires to be taken seriously as a celebrity needs. It does not have to be pretty or functional, but it must be big.