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News from Orkney and Shetlands MSPs

Beatrice Wishart speaking in the Scottish Parliament chamber
Shetland

WASPI: Wishart - UK Government must give compensation

Responding to the report released today by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, that recommended the UK Government should compensate the 1950s women affected by the Department for Work and Pensions maladministration of state pension changes.

21 Mar 2024
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Orcadian Column, 14 March 2024

High up in the atrium at KGS, the voices of the Orkney Rocks choir were ringing out last Saturday morning. Music full of joy enough to lift the soul, although in some senses it felt at odds with the nature of the event I was there to attend.

12 Mar 2024
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MV Hamnavoe entering Stromness Harbour, by Reading Tom.
General News and Press Releases

McArthur raises Hamnavoe cover failure in parliament

At General Questions in the Scottish Parliament today, Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur challenged the Scottish Government over its failure to provide a replacement vessel on the Stromness-Scrabster route while MV Hamnavoe was away on refit earlier this year.

29 Feb 2024
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Orcadian Column, 29 February 2024

All credit to the team at Radio Orkney for their fine tribute to Dave Gray last Friday morning, following his sudden and untimely death earlier in the week. I’m really not sure how they managed to hold it together while recording.

27 Feb 2024
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RNLI lifeboat in Lerwick harbour
Shetland

Wishart celebrates 200 years of the RNLI

Ahead of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)’s 200 year anniversary on 4 March 2024, Shetland MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat Beatrice Wishart has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament.

21 Feb 2024
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