Martin Whitfield MSP column: End the division and violence
IT HAS been two weeks since the people of East Lothian, alongside the rest of the UK, headed to the polls to vote in the General Election.
IT HAS been two weeks since the people of East Lothian, alongside the rest of the UK, headed to the polls to vote in the General Election.
THIS month marks the 25th anniversary of the first sitting of the new Scottish Parliament.
SCOTTISH politics has been through another turbulent couple of weeks, after Humza Yousaf’s decision to dump the Greens and end their coalition left the SNP in disarray.
INITIAL proposals for amending Scottish Parliamentary constituency boundaries published last year included removing Prestonpans from the East Lothian constituency.
PARLIAMENTARY recesses are always a good time to catch up on some of the many positive things happening locally.
NEW Scottish Government statistics published last week show that the number of children in Scotland living in poverty has barely changed in the last year.
FOLLOWING last week’s UK Government budget, we have now had two underwhelming Budgets from two failing Governments.
EAST Lothian is rightly renowned for the excellence of the food and drink made by local producers.
HAVING a place to live and call your own is a basic human right which most of us take for granted. However, for ever-growing numbers of people in Scotland, this right is far from reality.
LAST month’s chaotic Scottish Budget will leave ordinary Scots paying more and getting less in return.
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