Wendy Alexander

Calman report could provide the catalyst for referendum deal

scotsman.com
Nov 30, 2008 9 related
        

Alex Salmond is hoping that come November 30, 2010, Scots will go into the voting booths and tick the 'YES' box next to this statement. The plan is set out in the Referendum (Scotland) Bill, which was presented to the Holyrood...

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Scottish Conservative Party is no longer nasty, but is 'stupid' any better?

telegraph.co.uk
Nov 24, 2008 1 related
        

A few years ago, Theresa May, the then party chairman, got herself into a fair bit of hot water when she said the Tories had to rid themselves of their reputation as the "nasty party". What adjective might be applied today to...

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The roots of Labour's civil war: the internal battles that ended in the Scottish leader's own...

sundayherald.com
Nov 22, 2008 7 related
        

INVESTIGATION: By Paul Hutcheon and Scottish Political Editor Tom Gordon THE CIVIL war inside the East Lothian Consituency Labour Party (ELCLP) has been brewing for more than four years, and Anne Moffat, a former nurse and...

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Beach man denies planning murder-for-hire plot

tmcnet.com
Nov 21, 2008
        

Nov 21, 2008 (The Virginian-Pilot - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- VIRGINIA BEACH -- The man accused of plotting to kill a Virginia Beach police detective took the witness stand Thursday and denied...

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Infection floors first minister

bbc.co.uk
Nov 20, 2008 1 related
        

First Minister Alex Salmond is off sick after being prescribed antibiotics for a chest and throat infection. Mr Salmond felt unwell after officially opening the new Clackmannanshire Bridge on Wednesday. He cancelled all his...

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Ian Swanson: Calman will try to bring parties together

scotsman.com
Nov 20, 2008
        

Published Date: 20 November 2008 IT'S nearly a year since the idea of a cross-party commission on more powers for the Scottish Parliament was officially put forward by Wendy Alexander in a St Andrew's Day lecture at Edinburgh...

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Bernard Crick: Day of the Bollards, when traffic stood still

scotsman.com
Nov 18, 2008
        

Published Date: 18 November 2008 ONCE upon a time Edinburgh traffic moved, it really did, slowly but surely, long before the confusion and then the disaster struck. Yet the number of Bollards began to grow exponentially, as if...

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Health boards 'face cutbacks of £150million'

dailyrecord.co.uk
Nov 17, 2008 1 related
        

Nov 17 2008 By Lachlan Mackinnon HEALTH boards face budget cuts of £150million, it was claimed last night. Critics say the problem is caused by funding being increased below the projected inflation level. Public finance expert...

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Bill Jamieson: So where is our recovery plan?

scotsman.com
Nov 16, 2008
        

Inflation worries are dead. What can the Scottish Government do to mitigate the full blast of recession and ease the way to recovery? And it can do much to ensure that we are getting the maximum output from Scottish Enterprise...

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Domestic trouble at our man in South Africa's mansion

independent.co.uk
Nov 14, 2008 9 related
        

When Britain's first black cabinet minister, Paul Boateng, left Westminster, his close friend Tony Blair helped soften the blow by handing him the plum job of British high commissioner to South Africa – along with all its...

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