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• 23Jul 10

  Upgrade of Glasgow-Edinburgh Road to Motorway Slips as SNP Sit on Report for a Year

  SNP ministers have been criticised for failing to make a decision on the upgrade of the A8 despite the fact they have been sitting on the conclusions of two reports, the latter of which was handed over a year ago.

  A Public Local Inquiry into the proposals was held in 2008 and the Reporter’s conclusions were formally submitted to the government in October of that year – hence ministers have sat on that decision for over 20 months. A separate report on the M8/M73/M74 improvements was submitted to ministers on 24 July, 2009 – now a year on their desks.

  Under the original plans unveiled in 2003, the project to improve the 10km section of the A8 between the M73 at Baillieston and the A73 at Newhouse to ensure a complete motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh should have been completed by the end of 2010, but Transport Scotland estimates the date for completion is now 2013/2014 (see notes). Read more »

• 17Jul 10

  Wendy: No Room for Complacency on Domestic Abuse as Incidents Soar

  - Scottish Government soft touch sentencing plans fail abuse victims –
  - Tough action key to get more victioms to come forward -

  Wendy Alexander has criticised the Scottish Government’s scrapping of short term sentences as a failure to protect the victims of domestic abuse.

  The criticism comes as the number of domestic violence cases soars by 1,500.

  Currently 68% of those sent to prison for domestic violence got a sentence of less than 3 months.

  The new presumption against sentences of less than three months, passed by the SNP Government in June, could mean that the majority of perpetrators of domestic abuse would escape jail. Read more »

• 15Jul 10

  Wendy Condems £4m Spent on Spin

  Paisley North MSP Wendy Alexander has said she is astonished that the local NHS Board has spent £1m since 2007 on press, media and communications staff. The figures were revealed by an FOI request to each Scottish Health Board.

  Since 2007 the Greater Glasgow Health Board has spent £959,792 on media and communication staff at a time when staff at the frontline are badly needed.

  This year £ 4,075,060 that is being spent by Scottish health boards on press and communications it could pay for 154 nurses on a starting salary. Wendy believes this would be a far better use of NHS resources. Read more »