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Why is the limit of the Executive's horizon in connecting the capital of the Highlands to the capital of Scotland to reduce travel time by five minutes by 2004? At that rapid rate of progress, the length of the train journey might match that of the car by the time a child in the Highlands picks up his pension.
The partnership runs a superb games club at Moredun library, which has been hugely successful in reducing the number of reports of antisocial behaviour.
A lot of 19th century philanthropists, for example, gifted museums, libraries and so on, but made conditions that they were to be held for the common good of the people of the burgh.
It is not the fault of Karen, who works in social work, has a teenage son and is losing more than £3,000 from her salary, or of Jeanette, a senior library assistant, and her husband, who are losing £4,000 between them.
The committee commends the promoter for making the scope of the power clearer.The amendment to section 36(3) is a minor tidying-up one that will ensure that copies of certificates relating to any amendments that are approved by the sheriff to correct inaccuracies in the book of reference are also sent to the partner libraries that hold copies of the origina...
Amendments 45 and 47 remind authorities that, historically, charges could not be levied on certain functions, such as education in schools, the provision of a public library service, firefighting and the registration and conduct of elections.
I hope that the Licensing (Scotland) Bill, which we passed earlier in this parliamentary session, will help the situation.What was even more striking was that the people who were detained by the police that night—through what I must say were rapid police responses—were clearly driven to their offending because of binge drinking.