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Smith urges Elderly to take steps to beat bogus callers

23 July 2010

Margaret Smith and Mike Crockart have welcomed up-to-date guidance issued by the West Neighbourhood Team about dealing with bogus callers after fresh concerns were raised recently. Commenting local MSP Margaret Smith said:

“Bogus callers can be a ...

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Stop the drop-off charge

21 July 2010

Margaret is leading the campaign along with Mike Crockart MP to stop drop-off charges being introduced at Edinburgh Airport later this year. The airport is trying to introduce a £1 charge for dropping passengers at its terminal building by ...

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Mike poses with a blood clot to support National Thrombosis Week 2010

STOP THE CLOT: Mike Crockart MP lends support to National Thrombosis Week 2010

17 June 2010

MP for Edinburgh West Mike Crockart this week lent his support to a campaign to help raise awareness about the estimated 25,000 preventable deaths caused each year from hospital-acquired thrombosis - the UK's single biggest preventable hospital ...

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Mike Crockart elected as new MP for Edinburgh West

3 June 2010

Mike Crockart joins a strong local Lib Dem team as the new MP for Edinburgh West! Mike would like to thank everyone who supported him during the general election campaign. Mike replaces John Barrett who served as MP here in Edinburgh West for ...

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Scott: Hotels will be stunned by enormous rate rises

4 March 2010

Liberal Democrats have revealed that business rates for many Scottish hotels are set to rise by tens of thousands of pounds on April 1 this year.

At Question Time, the First Minister insisted that this was nothing to do with him.

Commenting after ...

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New Care Home for Drum Brae

23 February 2010

Edinburgh’s Lib Dem led Council has announced that it will build a new Care Home on the site of the closing Drum Brae Primary school. Edinburgh’s Health and Social Care Convenor Paul Edie said “We need to replace a number of our crumbling Care ...

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