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Industrial action to hit Scottish Water

Workers at publicly owned Scottish Water will be taking industrial action in a dispute over pay.  In ...

By The Orkney News

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Repowering: Communities at the heart of Scotland’s renewable future

Trying to keep up with the constantly evolving government policies aimed at mitigating climate change ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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Have Your Say: Visitor Levy consultation now open in Glasgow

Since 2019 discussions around the introduction of a Visitor Levy – also called the ‘tourism ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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Slow progress on cladding in Edinburgh and Leith

The Housing (Cladding Remediation) Scotland Act 2024 was passed in May last year and came ...

By Broughton Spurtle

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Is Islay’s whisky boom about to hit a snag?

Is the golden goose on a break? The last few years have seen plans for ...

By Brian Palmer, The Illeach

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Edinburgh city agrees details of new visitor levy

The meeting was held online due to Storm Éowyn but all councillors had ample opportunity to ...

By Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter

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£1 million fraud at Aberdeen City Council sends a warning across local government

All Scottish councils must learn from the weaknesses that allowed an Aberdeen City Council employee’s ...

By Midlothian View

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How do we reconcile change? Viking wind farm and the consequences

When Shetland embarked on that protracted Viking wind farm journey more than two decades ago, ...

By Hans Marter, Shetland News

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New research finds Roma are being denied decent housing in Glasgow’s Govanhill

A research project by Roma rights group Romano Lav and Poverty Alliance, Scotland’s anti-poverty network, ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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VisitScotland to close 25 of its iCentres

There seems to be a complete lack of accountability from the Scottish Government over VisitScotland’s ...
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Organic veg producers in Shetland say climate crisis still not taken seriously

FOOD producers Transition Turriefield say they are “tired of fighting to get enough” funding from ...
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