UK Government Levelling Up minister Rachel Maclean has called on the Scottish Government and Network Rail to deliver a new railway station for Winchburgh.
From today the Scottish Parliament goes into its summer recess, but after Tuesday’s depressing debate on Scottish independence, no-one should be fooled into thinking this means a two-month holiday.
What an absolutely uplifting day I spent at Edinburgh College’s graduation ceremony last Friday. Scores of people who might otherwise not have had the chance to earn life-changing qualifications all took a giant stride forward to a bright future.
As if proof was needed about the abject failure of the Scottish Government to tackle the scourge of drug addiction, it is the new study of 50,000 Scots which showed opiate-related deaths trebled between 2011 and 2020.
Like many Edinburgh folk, I fondly remember Loopy Lorna’s lovely tea house at Morningside Station and although its founder is sadly no longer with us, the spirit of her nickname lives on with the minster trying to turn the pig’s ear of the SNP-Green deposit return scheme into a silk purse.
For those very lucky Edinburgh people with second homes in the East Neuk of Fife, there might be a little sense of excitement at the planning permission granted this week for a new station at Cameron Bridge on the outskirts of Methil.
It’s been years in the making and no-one should be fooled into thinking that just replacing Edinburgh’s health and social care chief Judith Proctor will bring about overnight improvements.
