Category: Politics
AUOB Update
We are not long out of the meeting with the authorities Re #AUOBEdinburgh, where we sat round a table with Edinburgh council, Police Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland (HES).We are proud to announce that Police Scotland have made an executive decision in the interests of health & safety and public order to facilitate our stance that…
Hollyrood park pop up events.
Many are speculating that the event this Saturday will attract the largest turn out yet in the series of marches across Scotland for Scottish Independence. The organisers however appear to be facing opposition from the public body HES. Historic Environment Scotland have denied the use of Hollyrood park by All Under One Banner to hold their…
Fit Housing coming to Nairn
The front page of the Nairnshire this week features the story on Fit housing coming to Nairn (you can view a larger PDF version of this here). This innovative project in partnership with NHS Highland, Carbon Dynamic and Albyn Housing could pioneer the future of health and social care across Scotland and has already won…
Wee Ginger Dug Comes to Nairn
The Wee Ginger Dug and his human Paul Kavanagh (the National columnist & blogger) will be speaking at the Little Theatre in Nairn. Doors open at 7pm Tickets £6 (£3 unwaged/concessions) from Maggie’s Hippylicious Dreams, High Street, Nairn. The Wee Ginger Dug has a regular column in the National newspaper and is often featured in…
End of term update
Having no previous experience or knowledge of working in local government the last two years has been a huge learning curve but during that time I have learnt so much and have built a good working relationship with many groups in Nairn.
Budget 2017 – Independent Group Misrepresent Budget Position
**press release from the Highland Council SNP group** As time passes and the Highland Council approach the eleventh hour with regard to the setting of the budget the SNP Group are pleased to acknowledge that the proposed cuts will be nowhere near what was originally proposed by the Independent Group. Talking about this, Cllr. Maxine…
Public Question and Answer Forums for Highland Council
**press release from the Highland Council SNP group** Councillors today rejected an SNP proposal intended to enable the public to ask questions of Council leaders in their communities. Today the Lib Dem Group proposed that members of the public should be allowed to ask a 1 minute question at Full Councils, with the whole session…
How the EU works
A lot of misinformation is spread about the EU, both accidentally and intentionally, but the structures that govern it are straightforward. It’s also not as big as you might have been led to believe — the European Commission employs fewer people than Edinburgh and Glasgow City Councils, but serves 500 million people rather than 1…
Scottish Parliament Election Campaign 2016
Images from the 2016 Scottish Parlimant Campaign. #BothVotesSNP
SNP Conference October 2015 (photos)
Glasgow October 2015