Fish Processing Sector Set For Brexit Hammering
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Fish processors in the North East of Scotland would be disproportionately hammered by reckless Tory plans to slap a £1,000 levy on EU workers in the UK...
View ArticleFears Of Another Tory Sell-Out On Fishing Grow
With thanks to Aberdeenshire SNP. Fears of another sell-out of the fishing industry grew this week with the publication of the UK Government’s White Paper on leaving the EU. Chairman of Aberdeenshire...
View ArticleScottish Government Faces Renewable Energy Crisis
With thanks to Andrew Linklater, Director of Buckny Hydro The new regime of business rates in Scotland has marked out hydropower for “special punishment”, threatening to end independent development of...
View ArticleLeaked UK Govt Memo: Fishing Not High Priority
With thanks to Kenneth Hutchison, Parliamentary Assistant to Dr. Eilidh Whiteford. Banff and Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford has hit out, after a leaked UK Government document indicated that fishing is not...
View ArticleBlackett Hails Start Of Old Royal Station Redevelopment
With thanks to Aberdeenshire SNP. Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside SNP councillor Geva Blackett (pictured) has hailed the start of the project to reinstate Ballater’s popular Old Royal Station,...
View ArticleTory MSP Called Out On Mental Health Service Claims
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Aberdeenshire Council has refuted claims made by Tory MSP Peter Chapman that a new mental health service is excluding people, insisting that the new...
View ArticleTories Vote Against Rates Relief For Businesses
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Tory councillors in the North-east of Scotland have rejected plans to offer businesses rates relief for the second time in under a week – after the...
View ArticleOverwhelming Majority For Landmark Law To Tackle Violence Against Women
With thanks to Banff & Buchan SNP. Local MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford’s Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill 2017, requires the UK...
View ArticleMSP Joins Call For Atrial Fibrillation Screening
Stewart Stevenson MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast has pledged to work with the Arrhythmia Alliance and its sister organisation, AF Association, to demand the creation of a national screening...
View ArticleUK Govt Must Come Clean On Failed Missile Test
With thanks to Kenneth Hutchison, Parliamentary Assistant to Dr. Eilidh Whiteford. The SNP MP for Banff and Buchan, Eilidh Whiteford, has called for the UK Government to come clean to Parliament...
View ArticleFish Processing Sector Set For Brexit Hammering
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Fish processors in the North East of Scotland would be disproportionately hammered by reckless Tory plans to slap a £1,000 levy on EU workers in the UK...
View ArticleFears Of Another Tory Sell-Out On Fishing Grow
With thanks to Aberdeenshire SNP. Fears of another sell-out of the fishing industry grew this week with the publication of the UK Government’s White Paper on leaving the EU. Chairman of Aberdeenshire...
View ArticleScottish Government Faces Renewable Energy Crisis
With thanks to Andrew Linklater, Director of Buckny Hydro The new regime of business rates in Scotland has marked out hydropower for “special punishment”, threatening to end independent development of...
View ArticleLeaked UK Govt Memo: Fishing Not High Priority
With thanks to Kenneth Hutchison, Parliamentary Assistant to Dr. Eilidh Whiteford. Banff and Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford has hit out, after a leaked UK Government document indicated that fishing is not...
View ArticleBlackett Hails Start Of Old Royal Station Redevelopment
With thanks to Aberdeenshire SNP. Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside SNP councillor Geva Blackett (pictured) has hailed the start of the project to reinstate Ballater’s popular Old Royal Station,...
View ArticleTory MSP Called Out On Mental Health Service Claims
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Aberdeenshire Council has refuted claims made by Tory MSP Peter Chapman that a new mental health service is excluding people, insisting that the new...
View ArticleTories Vote Against Rates Relief For Businesses
With thanks to Banffshire & Buchan Coast SNP. Tory councillors in the North-east of Scotland have rejected plans to offer businesses rates relief for the second time in under a week – after the...
View ArticleOverwhelming Majority For Landmark Law To Tackle Violence Against Women
With thanks to Banff & Buchan SNP. Local MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford’s Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill 2017, requires the UK...
View ArticleMSP Joins Call For Atrial Fibrillation Screening
Stewart Stevenson MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast has pledged to work with the Arrhythmia Alliance and its sister organisation, AF Association, to demand the creation of a national screening...
View ArticleSNP Announce Candidates for Westhill & District
With thanks to Aberdeenshire SNP. Local resident Heather Coull has been selected by SNP members in Westhill & District ward to join Councillor David Aitchison in seeking election to represent the...
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