Kenny MacAskill

THE Post Office Horizon scandal rumbles on.

WESTMINSTER may be in recess but, sadly, the world is not at peace.

HAVING spoken in Parliament and written about the injustice suffered by women born in the 1950s and denied pensions, a ministerial statement last Monday offered hope.

APPLICATIONS for onshore wind farms and other renewable energy projects have been causing concern in the county.

LAST week, Parliament provided an opportunity for MPs to express their anger with the delay in addressing the manifest pension injustice faced by many women born in the 1950s.

THE Budget dominated Westminster last week. As reported, it was mostly about electioneering rather than addressing the needs of the economy or our society.

PARLIAMENT was not as frenetic last week but Palestine was still to the fore.

I WASN’T due to be in Parliament last Wednesday. I’d intended to fulfil a longstanding commitment to a youth group.

OVER my lifetime, great progress had been made in addressing pensioner poverty.

FOLK have been feeling the pressures of higher energy bills and colder weather. Damp and rain is often harder to endure than snow. Bills will be rising and yet there is the issue of accumulated energy debt.