West Lothian Conservatives celebrated after winning seven seats in the local council elections. They previously had only one seat held by veteran councillor Tom Kerr.
The Conservatives profited as the SNP lost two seats overall...
The current councillors for the Southside and Newington Ward are
Steve Burgess - Scottish Green Party
Ian Perry - Scottish Labour Party
Jim Orr - Scottish National Party (SNP)
Cameron Rose - Scottish Conservative and Unionist
Jim Orr became an...
This ward lies on the south eastern corner of the city, has an Army Reserve Centre in it, the historic Liberton Tower and skirts along the City By Pass on its southern edge.
The current...
The main political parties have now published all their manifestos with pledges on a variety of local government issues.
Conservatives
The Conservatives in their local election manifesto and on other local leaflets we have seen are...
The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party leader Ruth Davidson was at The Yard in central Edinburgh today to launch the national Local government election manifesto.
She was full of energy as normal and keen to...
John Knox is the Liberal Democrat candidate in the Liberton/Gilmerton Ward. Those of you who read our weekly Letter from Scotland column will be familiar with him as he is one of our journalists.
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There are 26 SNP candidates standing at the 2017 council elections on 4 May, 9 of whom are women.
NORMAN WORK – SNP CANDIDATE FOR WARD 1 – ALMOND
For ten years Norman has had the...