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• 18Aug 10

  RAH Car Parking Update

  As most of you will know by now the Health Board has confirmed its intent to press ahead in early September and has apparently further advertised by holding ‘roadshow’ events. Some attending these have contacted me to indicate their extreme frustration at mere advice on alternative methods of transport to work, including cycling!
   
  You may remember that following my earlier efforts and our meeting at the end of May with health board management there seemed to be a willingness from the Chief Executive to take a fresh look at how to “problem solve” many of the shortcomings of the proposed plans, and I felt the delay of the June implementation plans backed this up. Read more »

• 23Jul 10

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

  Scottish Government 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 »