- Friends of the Earth Scotland Campaign -

Friends of the Earth Scotland have started a new environmental campaign encouraging people to pledge to do just one thing differently this year to help our environment.

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- Teacher numbers falling faster than pupil numbers -

On more than one occasion Renfrewshire’s SNP Council leader, Derek McKay, has mistakenly overstated to the press how many school pupils have been lost. (more…)

• Worst pupil teacher ratios of any secondaries in Scotland
• One of the biggest teacher losses in Scotland
• All progress made by Labour wiped out
• More teacher cuts to come
• Education not getting its fair share

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- Council urged to think again at Special Council meeting -

Today, local politician Wendy Alexander submitted her 766 signature strong petition to Renfrewshire Council as part of her campaign to reverse proposed music tuition cuts.

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Despite mounting criticism, Renfrewshire’s SNP-led Council stand by plans to reduce music tuition to once fortnightly and axe 7 full-time-equivalent staff. Signatures on Wendy’s online petition against the cuts are mounting with over 700 to date. (more…)

- Pensioners in Gallowhill, Elderslie and Renfrew lose out -

Scottish Labour’s Wendy Alexander has accused the SNP government of telling Parliament that pensioners are still eligible for a free central heating system - whilst in practice refusing to fund new systems.
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- DOUBLE WHAMMY AS LOSS OF TEACHERS ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY -

Yesterday official government statistics (1) revealed Renfrewshire axed 122 teachers last year – the third largest cut in Scotland after much larger councils Glasgow and Aberdeen. (more…)

Wendy Alexander MSP will join millions of people around the world in switching their non-essential lights off for one hour from 8.30pm on Saturday 28th March in support of WWF’s Earth Hour 2009.

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Text from Paisley Daily Express, Mar 21 2009 by Jeff Holmes.

A GROUP of politicians attended a summit with a total of over 20 local voluntary and charitable organisations.

Hugh Henry, Wendy Alexander, Trish Godman and Jim Sheridan instigated the get-together in a bid to better understand the challenges being faced by the sector in today’s harsh financial climate. (more…)

This “Have Your Say: Dossier of Dissent” provides a selection of quotes from angry pupils, parents, teachers and professional musicians about cuts to musical instrument tuition. (more…)