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In a bid to reverse one of Scotland’s biggest population declines, Argyll and Bute Council has approved plans to turn Coll and Tiree into pilot ‘repopulation zones’ which, if successful, will be rolled out across the region
The new county sees the merger of six Girlguiding counties and will include Argyll, the Highlands and Western Isles.
The turnout for the Highlands and Islands Regional list was 66.1%.
‘What is clear is that this solution will take some time to put in place and meantime we are stuck with a route that is closed more often than open.’
The MSP for Highlands and Islands made his final speech in Parliament last week.
Scottish TUSC was set up in 2010 by the late trade union leader Bob Crow of the RMT transport union. It is a coalition of socialists, trade unionists and community campaigners, including Socialist Party Scotland and RMT.
‘The UK has now delivered more than 18m vaccinations – but you wouldn’t have known that from the statement from Nicola Sturgeon.’
Sector needs space to recover not ‘red tape and bureaucracy,’ says MSP.
A University of Edinburgh, RuralCovidLife study, has examined the psychological, social and financial effects of the pandemic in rural areas.
