Farmers get one-month extension for submitting SAFs
As predicted, the Scottish Government yesterday confirmed the deadline for submitting this year’s single application forms (SAFs) for farm support funding will be extended by a month, to 15 June....
View Article06 May 16 - Elections Bring Fresh Dynamic to Scottish Parliament (National...
(Source: National Farmers' Union of Scotland) Article date: 06 May 2016 News Article Number: 113/16 Union extends welcome new crop of MSPs Voting in the Scottish Parliamentary elections has brought a...
View ArticleMSP portfolios confirmed (Scottish Green Party)
(Source: Scottish Green Party) 23 May, 2016 - 08:58 The Green MSP team is ready to engage constructively to bring about bolder legislation and fairer budget priorities for a better Scotland. Patrick...
View ArticleAngus represented at the European Rural Parliament (Angus Council)
(Source: Angus Council) Published Tuesday, 24th May 2016 Brechin businessman Bill Sturrock heads to Sweden later this week (27 to 29 May) to represent Angus at the gathering of the European Rural...
View ArticleInternational schools advice panel for Scottish government
The Scottish government has set up an international panel of education experts during the first cabinet meeting of the Holyrood term. Education and the economy were the key topics as Nicola Sturgeon...
View ArticleNicola Sturgeon bid to make Scottish education a “world leader”
Nicola Sturgeon will pledge to adopt a "spirit of consensus” as the Scottish Government attempts to make the country a "global leader in education”. The First Minister will set out her priorities for...
View Article25 May 16 - Union Meets New Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy (National...
(Source: National Farmers' Union of Scotland) Article date: 25 May 2016 News Article Number: 132/16 CAP delivery and competitive food production top of the agenda NFU Scotland has met with Fergus Ewing...
View Article26 May 16 - Union to Highlight Trade Deal Concerns (National Farmers' Union...
(Source: National Farmers' Union of Scotland) Article date: 26 May 2016 News Article Number: 133/16 MEPs invited to meet with NFUS this summer NFU Scotland has invited Scottish MEPs to join them on...
View ArticleLandowners call for ‘rural concord’ over land reform plans
Estate owners are calling for a "rural concord” with Holyrood ministers after two years in the "firing line” as MSPs debated controversial land reform legislation. New laws aimed at making land...
View ArticleFergus Ewing meets NFU Scotland top brass
Although the rural sector might yesterday have been forgiven for thinking that cabinet secretaries are like buses – wait for ages and then two come along at once – NFU Scotland was meeting and greeting...
View ArticleThe team to keep Scotland moving forward (SNP - Scottish National Party)
(Source: SNP - Scottish National Party) Today First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appointed her new Cabinet. Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet...
View ArticleMSP portfolios confirmed (Scottish Green Party)
(Source: Scottish Green Party) 23 May, 2016 - 08:58 The Green MSP team is ready to engage constructively to bring about bolder legislation and fairer budget priorities for a better Scotland. Patrick...
View ArticleUniversal credit is working, welfare secretary insists
Stephen Crabb rejects claim UC no longer serves original purpose of making people better off in work than on benefits...
View ArticleBill Jamieson: Business tsar must grasp the thistle
Cheers over Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to create a new cabinet post to focus on Scotland’s struggling economy have been muffled by growing concern over the breadth and pace of slowdown now evident....
View ArticleClearing up CAP ‘mess’ is Fergus Ewing’s top priority
Despite only having been in the job a week, new Scottish Government rural economy cabinet secretary Fergus Ewing was yesterday exhibiting the sort of willingness to roll up his sleeves and get on with...
View ArticleStephen Jardine: ‘Food’ omission must not lead to complacency
Why is food missing from the job titles in the Scottish Cabinet, asks Stephen Jardine At lunch after last week's meeting of the new Scottish Cabinet one question would have been perfectly...
View ArticleCuts at councils, where education makes up 40 per cent of revenue budgets,...
(Source: Scottish Green Party) This week, over two days, Parliament debated 'Taking Scotland Forward'. For the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie opened our contribution to the debate, and Mark Ruskell...
View ArticleTories back SNP plans to give schools more power
The Scottish Conservatives have promised to "fast-track” plans to give schools more power at Holyrood. Education spokeswoman Liz Smith said the party would use its new position as the second-largest at...
View ArticleThe results of the Rural Development Programme 2007–2013 show significant...
(Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Finland) The Rural Development Programme for Mainland Finland 2007-2013 promoted employment, improved the conditions for...
View ArticleClock is ticking on pledge to fix computer fiasco
Responding to Audit Scotland’s scathing report into the computer shambles, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said measures had been put in place and it would not happen again. He also maintained all...
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