An emergency meeting of Edinburgh Council called to overturn the proposed school closure consultation process ended abruptly today when LibDem Lord Provost George Grubb ruled a Labour/Green request to discuss the governance of the city as “incompetent”. (more…)
Read the Evening News opinion piece by Councillor Alison Johnstone on school closures
Robin Harper MSP will today visit Cramond Beach in Edinburgh to support the Adopt a Beach clean-up organised by the Marine Conservation Society. (2) (more…)
Following exchanges at First Minister’s Question Time over the issue of ‘double jeopardy’, Green MSP Patrick Harvie said: (more…)
On Thursday 13th September, during Scottish Food Fortnight, Green Lothians MSP Robin Harper will co-host a reception in the Scottish Parliament for Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society promoting their report Growing Scotland. (more…)
Officials and experts appeared before the Parliament’s Transport, Climate Change and Infrastructure Committee today for the first time to be questioned on the proposed legislation to scrap all tolls on the Forth and Tay Bridges, and ’serious inadequacies’ were revealed in terms of its environmental and financial impact. (more…)