Tag: Shirley-Anne Somerville
Council’s Education Convener hits back at government minister over Gaelic school
Edinburgh’s education chief has hit back a Scottish Government minister who called on the council to make ‘progress’ on finding a location for the city’s new Gaelic secondary school.
Plans to build a city centre...
Free school meals till Easter a welcome move
The Scottish Government has allocated over £10 million which is now available to local authorities to continue free school meal provision during Christmas, the February break and Easter holidays in 2021.
Cabinet Secretary for Social Security...
Scottish Child Payment – apply now
Low income families will now be able to apply for a new £10 a week payment for every child aged 0-6 next year. As part of measures to lift 30,000 children out of poverty,...
Boroughmuir High School opened by Minister Shirley-Anne Somerville
When opening the newest secondary school in the capital, the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville was one of three government ministers doing the same thing across the country.
Education Minister...
Boroughmuir High School official opening
The newest of the Edinburgh schools was officially opened today by the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville.
The opening ceremony included the school's pipe band, the rock band who played...
Former MSP appointed to Shelter
Former MSP for the Lothians, Shirley-Anne Somerville, has been appointed as a member of the Shelter Scotland committee.
Shirley-Anne’s political experience and her four years as a policy and public affairs officer for the Chartered...
Politics:- SNP launch mini manifesto on environment
The SNP today published its mini manifesto on the environment, outlining the green policies a re-elected SNP Government will take forward. The document, "A Greener Scotland", explains how the SNP will take forward plans...
Edinburgh Reporter Chats – Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP
We meet on what is obviously a typically busy morning for the SNP MSP for the Lothians., but is standing for the constituency of Edinburgh North and Leith in 2011. Just after our chat...
MSPs cooking up a storm…..
MSPs Shirley-Anne Somerville and Malcolm Chisholm have kindly agreed to cook at the CORE World Café and fundraise for their work.
CORE Director, Tesfu Gessesse, said:-"The unique nature of CORE is that we are not...
Capital City supplement welcomed
Lothians MSP, Shirley-Anne Somerville, today welcomed the news that the Capital City supplement – a £3 million fund provided to Edinburgh by the SNP Government to meet the costs of being Scotland’s capital is...
Biomass – have your say before the end of March
Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP (Lothians) (SNP) is encouraging residents in Leith and North Edinburgh to have their say on Forth Energy’s proposals to build a large biomass plant at Imperial Dock. The energy company...
Edinburgh MSP uses Facebook to highlight cervical cancer campaign
Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP (Lothians) (SNP) is using her website and Facebook page to increase awareness of cervical cancer and how to prevent it during Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (23rd-29th January 2011).
Cervical cancer is a...
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