Tag: Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown challenges Prime Minister Johnson
Gordon Brown has challenged the Prime Minister over what he says are dishonest claims that underestimate the risk to medical supplies for vulnerable NHS patients and of sharp food and fuel price rises that...
CR Smith seek 100 employers for their Hand Picked scheme
The double glazing firm CR Smith have launched a campaign to find 100 employers to join their Hand Picked 100 initiative.
This is a programme which aims to get young people into work, and it...
2018 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival is biggest ever
This year's Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival in the Scottish Borders will take place in Melrose from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 June.
Now considered one of the premier festivals in Britain, the event offers its largest...
Letter from Scotland
The Americans call it “The Fall” …not a reference to Adam and Eve eating an apple from the tree of knowledge, nor a reference to the Reformation which this week celebrated its 500th anniversary,...
#GE2017 Gordon Brown visits Edinburgh
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, former Chancellor and Prime Minister, stopped off in Liberton this evening to address some 250 -300 Labour party members in the school hall at Liberton High School.
And his speech...
Letter from Scotland
We have had two slight distractions from the election campaign this week. One was the good weather which, for a brief moment, gave us a glimpse of summer and persuaded the blossom to come...
Letter from Scotland
I’ve spend much of this week wandering lonely as a cloud over the fields and hedgerows of England. On family visits in Norfolk and Hertfordshire I saw ten thousand daffodils, weeping willows just come...
Letter from Scotland
The flowering of the crocuses and the occasional glimpse of blue sky has alerted us to the fact that spring has officially arrived. But unofficially, we have also had snow here on the sheltered...
Letter from Scotland
We are now well into the Christmas spending spree. It seems to be the only thing which is driving the economy at the moment. The ghastly American tradition of “Black Friday” has come to...
Letter from Scotland
“Don’t panic!” But of course they did. The Dad’s Army from the south came north with just a week to go before the referendum to urge us Jocks to stay with the Union and...
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