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doctrix, also has a column in either the Sunday Mail or News of the World -
don't normally buy 'em so sorry for being so vague.
Further Information
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Scottish newspaper index
http://www.scottalk.net/media/
Scottish newspapers on-line
http://www.ecola.com/news/press/eu/uk/sc/
Yahoo index for Scotland is
http://uk.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Scotland/
Media and newspapers are off there at:
News_and_Media/Newspapers/
See also (UK newspapers on-line)
http://www.lifestyle.co.uk/fa.htm
http://www.smg.plc.uk/publishing/
Scottish Media Watch
http://www.freescotland.com/media.html
The Press Complaints Commission
http://www.pcc.org.uk/
The Scottish News Agency.
mailto:iainx@reporters.net
fax 0870 787 8961.
Free press release publication
------------------------------
http://www.pr-scotland.com/
[18.2] Radio
BBC Radio Scotland, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, G12 8DG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/
Tel: 0141 339 8844
Radio nan Gaidheal, 7 Culduthel Road, Inverness, IV2 4AD
Tel: (Inverness) 01463 720720
Fax: (Stornoway) 01851 704633
More information
----------------
See [18.5] for Scots music radio programmes
See [18.6] for Gaelic TV and Radio information
See [18.4] for Celtic & Scottish stations broadcasting on the Internet
See http://www.freescotland.com/media.html for Scottish Media Watch
[18.3] Television
BBC
---
BBC Scotland (TV)
Gaelic: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/bbcalba/
The BBC in Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/
The BBC raises approximately 164m a year from Scottish TV licence
payers but only 84m was spent in 1997 on making programmes in Scotland,
including regional programmes and commissions for the national network.
The other half of the money went on BBC1 and 2 and Radios 1,2,3,4 and 5 live
and towards transmission costs. (Source: Scotland on Sunday 16 Aug 98, P9)
ITV
---
Border Television
http://www.border-tv.com/
Border Television, Television Centre, Carlisle CA1 3NT
Phone: +44 (0) 1228 25101
Fax: +44 (0) 1228 41384
Grampian Television
Telebhisean Grampian, Crois na Banrigh, Obar Dheathain, AB9 2XJ,
(Grampian TV, Queen's Cross, Aberdeen)
Tel: 01224 846 846, Fax: 01224 846800
mailto:gtv@grampiantv.co.uk
(now part of the Scottish Media Group)
http://www.grampiantv.co.uk/
Scottish Television
http://www.scottishtv.co.uk/
Scottish Television PLC, Cowcaddens, Glasgow G2 3PR
Phone : +44 (0) 141 300 3000
Fax : +44 (0) 141 300 3030
Terrestrial Frequencies
-----------------------
TV broadcast channels for the 5 terrestrial channels, broken down by
Scottish transmitter frequencies
http://www.dtg.org.uk/dealer/freq_sco.htm
Tartan TV
---------
Tartan TV is a weekly magazine programme which is broadcast in North
America and Canada.
http://www.tartan.tv/
Gaelic
------
See [18.6] for Gaelic TV and Radio information
Media Watch
-----------
See http://www.freescotland.com/media.html for Scottish Media Watch
[18.4] Scottish and Celtic broadcasting on the Internet
Indexes
=======
Celtic music
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Index of Celtic Music WebRadio Sites
http://www.ramsisle.com/celtic/webradio.htm
Traditional music weekly show from RTE in Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/av.html
Celtic MP3s you can play
http://genres.mp3.com/music/world_folk/world_traditions/european/celtic/
Ceolas list
http://www.ceolas.org/ref/radio.html
General Lists
-------------
All web radio stations can be found at
http://www.broadcast.com/ or
http://www.txmusic.com/radio-eur.htm or
http://www.timecast.com/
http://www.webradio.com/
http://www.folk-sa.asn.au/webradio.html
Stations
========
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotlandnews/
http://www.scottish.internetradio.co.uk/
http://www.lochbroomfm.internetradio.co.uk/
http://www.celticgrove.com/
There is Manx music information off
http://www.manxman.co.im/
http://www.netradio.net/earthbeat/
Select the Celtic channel. Constant feed.
http://www.mindspring.com/~dmarten/
Celtic Music on WRUV 90.1
Mondays 6:00-9:00 AM US Eastern Time (GMT -5 hours)
http://www.spinner.com/
Follow the "World and New Age" link for Celtic.
http://www.kgnu.org/audio/
KGNU-FM Boulder, Colorado
Celtic music 7:00-9:00 PM US Mountain Standard Time (GMT -7 hours)
http://www.ckua.org/
CKUA broadcasts "The Celtic Show", 6pm-9pm (MST), Fridays
[18.5] Scottish music radio programmes
In Scotland
-----------
Radio Scotland (MW= Medium Wave 810, FM = 92.4 to 94.7). All the programmes
below are FM and MW unless otherwise stated. Radio Scotland MW can be
picked up as far south as London when conditions are favourable.
mailto:radioscotland@scot.bbc.co.uk
Mon
Mr Anderson's fine tunes: 2:00-4:00
Live at the Lemon Tree 7-8pm
Tue
Mr Anderson's fine tunes: 2:00-4:00
Celtic Connections 7-9pm
Wed
Mr Anderson's fine tunes: 2:00-4:00
Thu
Mr Anderson's fine tunes: 2:00-4:00
Travelling Folk 7-9pm
Fri
Mr Anderson's fine tunes: 2:00-4:00
Sat
Take the floor 6:30-8pm
Travelling Folk 8-10pm
Celtic Connections 10-12 midnight
Sun
The Reel Blend: 10-12am MW & FM
Pipeline: 9:00-9:45pm
Other
Radio nan Gaidheal also has a lot of music. Unsure of exact times of music
programmes though. (On 103.5 - 105 & 97.9 FM) Na durachdan (6:05-7:30 on
Fridays) plays popular request music
Radio nan Gaidheal broadcasts in the Edinburgh area on 104.7FM.
Its broadcasting times in Scotland are:
7:30-12:00 and 17:00-19:30 (Mon-Thu)
7:30-12:00 and 17:00-23:00 (Fri);
9:00-13:00 (Sat);
15:00-15:30 and 21:00-22:00 Sun
Moray Firth Radio have a folk show on Thursday evenings 7:30 to 9:00.
They can be contacted at mailto:moray_firth_radio@cali.co.uk
Folk on 2, BBC Radio 2. Wednesdays 8-9pm.
Covers British Folk. Presented by Jim Lloyd
there is also frequent series of folk & features on Wednesdays between 8pm
and 9:30pm on Radio 2 (three half hour programmes)
In the US
---------
The Thistle and Shamrock. This is hosted by Fiona Ritchie.
There is an on-line list of stations carrying this programme -
http://www.npr.org/programs/thistle/
or http://www.cstone.net/~pmurphy/thistle.html
The list is maintained by Pat Murphy (http://www.goof.com/~pmurphy/) and
posted regularly to the newsgroup news:rec.music.celtic
Ceolas carries another list, of over one hundred American celtic music
radio programs, and several in other parts of the world:
http://www.ceolas.org/pub/radio.list
The Thistle and Shamrock has a brochure that gives some background on Fiona
Ritchie and the show, and includes information about their Newsletter,
Playlists, and Souvenirs: T-shirts, a pin, tankard and coasters. If you want
this brochure, send a SASE to "The Thistle and Shamrock, P.O. Box 560646,
Charlotte, NC 28256 (USA).
At Ceolas http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html, there is a list
"Ceolas Worldwide Celtic Music Radio Listing"
[18.6] Gaelic TV and radio information
Radio
-----
Gaelic Radio is on (103.5 - 105 & 97.9 FM) the same frequency as Radio
Scotland VHF - this is 104.3 in the Edinburgh area. It's on in the mornings
and early evening. Gaelic is no longer broadcast on Radio Scotland 810MW,
a great disappointment as it used to be available in most of England and
now the so-called "National" service only has patchy coverage in Scotland!
Contact:
Radio nan Gaidheal, 7 Culduthel Road, Inverness, IV2 4AD
Tel: 01463 720720
Television
----------
Gaelic TV is on BBC Scotland. Scottish Television and Grampian
Television.
Times
-----
Times of Gaelic Radio and TV are also published each Friday in the
West Highland Free Press, Broadford, Skye, IV49 9AP
Tel: 01471 822464
Fax: 01471 822694
mailto:newsdesk@whfp.co.uk
Gaelic Broadcasting Committee
-----------------------------
For details of Gaelic Broadcasting in general, contact:
The Gaelic Broadcasting Committee.
4 Acarsaid, Cidhe Sraid Chrombail, Steornabhagh,
Eilean Leodhais PA87 2DF, Scotland.
Tel: 01851 705550
Fax: 01851 706432
mailto:admin@ccg.org.uk
http://www.ccg.org.uk/
See also [18.7]
Gaelic Broadcasting Provision
-----------------------------
Provision for Gaelic television programmes on Independent Television
in Scotland was included in general terms in the Broadcasting Act 1981,
and was specifically provided for in the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and
1996. Grampian and Scottish Television, but not Border Television,
therefore have specific licence conditions to produce and broadcast
Gaelic programmes: in the case of Grampian Television, 53 minutes a
week of Gaelic programmes funded by themselves plus an additional 30
minutes a week supplied by Scottish Television; Scottish Television
has to show 30 minutes a week of Gaelic programmes funded by themselves
plus an additional 30 minutes a week funded by Grampian Television.
In addition, these companies are obliged to broadcast on a regular
basis up to 200 hours a year of Gaelic programmes funded by the Gaelic
Broadcasting Committee.
The Gaelic Broadcasting Committee (Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig, CCG)
manages the Gaelic Broadcasting Fund set up under the provisions of
the Broadcasting Act 1990, as amended by the Broadcasting Act 1996.
The Committee is charged with funding up to 200 hours of Gaelic
television programmes, and with enhancing and widening the range of
Gaelic sound programmes, to be broadcast mainly in Scotland. In
practice, funded programmes are broadcast by the BBC as well as ITV,
although the former has no statutory requirement under the Broadcasting
Acts 1990 and 1996 to transmit Gaelic programmes funded by the Gaelic
Broadcasting Committee.
The BBC, under its Royal Charter and its agreement with Parliament,
pledges to broadcast 90 hours a year of Gaelic television programmes
funded by the Gaelic Broadcasting Committee. It also provides the
Gaelic radio service Radio nan Gaidheal which broadcasts up to 45
hours a week of Gaelic programming.
See also
--------
http://www.ccg.org.uk/schedules/
[18.7] Attitudes towards Gaelic TV in Scotland
Survey results
--------------
This survey was conducted by System Three for the Gaelic Television
Committee (see [18.6]) and published in July 94 in their 93/94 annual
report.
The Gaelic TV programmes are not funded by TV licence money, they
are funded directly from the Government by Act of Parliament (the
Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996).
Unweighted base: 1052.
Figures are percentages
The columns are
1) Agree strongly
2) Agree slightly
3) Neither agree nor disagree
4) Disagree slightly
5) Disagree strongly
6) Don't know
7) Mean score
Questions:
a) There are too many Gaelic programmes on television nowadays
Answers: 11 15 13 36 20 4 -0.40
b) I enjoy watching Gaelic TV programmes, even though I may not
speak Gaelic myself.
Answers: 12 30 12 20 23 4 -0.14
c) Too many Gaelic TV programmes are shown at peak times
Answers: 14 14 13 36 17 6 -0.29
d) It is important that the Gaelic language in Scotland is kept alive
through Gaelic programmes on TV
Answers: 40 35 9 8 5 3 1.00
[18.8] Scottish film industry
Scottish Screen
---------------
Scottish Screen is the new national body for film and television in
Scotland, established in April 1997. It takes on the functions of
the Scottish Film Council, the Scottish Film Production Fund,
Scottish Screen Locations and Scottish Broadcast and Film Training,
forming a unitary organisation.
Scottish Screen now works in the areas of production, development,
location assistance, exhibition and festivals, training, media education
and preserving the heritage and history of the moving image in Scotland
through the Archive.
Contact:
Scottish Screen
Chief Executive, John Archer
249 West George Street
Glasgow G2 4QE
Tel: 0141-302-1700
Fax: 0141-302-1711
mailto:info@scottishscreen.com
http://www.scottishscreen.com/
For Scottish Film locations, see [18.9]
Celtic Film and Television Association
--------------------------------------
Contact:
Frances Hendron
Secretary: AEFI
Celtic Film and Television Association
1 Bowmont Gardens
Glasgow
G12 9LR
Scotland
Tel: 0141 342 4947
Fax: 0141 342 4948
mailto:mail@celticfilm.co.uk
[18.9] Scottish film locations
Information for anyone who may be interested
Scotland the Movie Location Guide
A visitor guide to filming locations for movies and television made in
Scotland is now at
http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/
Currently covers over 60 movies and television series with hundreds of
photos of locations, stills and maps. Site currently has over 300
pages with more added frequently.
[19.1] The Scotland Office
Homepage of the Scotland office, formerly the Scottish Office
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/
British Government
http://www.open.gov.uk/
[19.2] Sources of political information
See [19.12] for details of the Parliament and associated white
papers on the referendum and the Parliament itself.
Addresses of relevant organisations:
Political Parties in Scotland
=============================
Scottish National Party (SNP)
----------------------------
Scottish National Party
107 McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4NW
Tel: 0131 525 8900
(Gaelic: Partaidh Naiseanta na h-Alba - PNA)
http://www.snp.org.uk/
mailto:snp.hq@snp.org.uk
John Webster
Scottish National Party,
300 Cree Crescent,
Winnipeg,
Manitoba, R3J 3W9.
Canada
mailto:JHWebster@mts.net
In the US, contact John MacInnes mailto:Nmcomm@aol.com
The newspaper The Scots Independent is at
http://www.freescotland.com/si.html
Labour Party
------------
Labour Party, 1 Lynedoch Place, Glasgow G3 6AB.
Tel: 0141 332 8946 FAX 331 2566
http://www.labour.org.uk/ (UK)
http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/ (Scotland)
Liberal Democrats
-----------------
Liberal Democrats, 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 5DR
0131 337 2314
http://www.scotlibdems.org.uk/
(opposite Haymarket station)
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~dbrack/ldhg/media.html
Liberal Democrat History group
Conservative
------------
Conservative and Unionist Party
Suite 1/1, 14 Links Place, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7EZ
Tel: 0131 555 2900
http://www.conservative-party.org.uk/ (UK)
http://www.scottish.tories.org.uk/ (Scotland)
Scottish Independence Party
---------------------------
http://www.scottishindependenceparty.org/
mailto:contact@scottishindependenceparty.org
Politically Oriented organisations
==================================
Campaign for a Scottish Parliament
Marion Rolls, CSP National Secretary,
22 Royal Circus, Edinburgh EH3 6SS
Tel/Fax: 0131 225 7814
mailto:cscoparl@cybersurf.co.uk
http://www.cybersurf.co.uk/cscoparl/
People and Parliament
Contact:
Freepost SCO3219, Edinburgh, EH7 5WY
Tel: 0800 328 9634
Common Cause, PO Box 822, Glasgow, G14 9JA 0141 631 2420
Democracy for Scotland, 5 Regent Rd, Edinburgh EH7 0131 558 3088
Scottish Patriots, 76 Constitution St, Leith, EH6 0131 554 7951
Scotland FORward, PO Box 1999, Edinburgh EH7 5YA 0870 050 1999
Campaign office: 16 Forth Street, Edinburgh EH1 3LH
Fax: 0870 055 1999 mailto:ScoFORw@aol.com
Charter 88
c/o Sead, 23 Castle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DN Tel: 0131 225 6550
http://www.charter88.org.uk/
mailto:c88scot@cybersurf.co.uk
Scottish Socialist Alliance http://wkweb1.cableinet.co.uk/diblake/
Scottish council for civil liberties
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Law.OLD/student/SCCL/
SCCL is an independent non party-political organisation which campaigns
for the defence and promotion of civil liberties in Scotland and
provides educational material on civil and human rights
The magazine of the Green movement in Scotland is available through
Green Scotland, 2 Arbikie Cottages, Inverkeilor, Angus DD11 4UZ
tel: 01241 830351
See also
--------
Scottish Politics home page: http://www.alba.org.uk/
There is an interesting survey at
http://www.alba.org.uk/icmmay.html
This is an ICM poll for The Scotsman regarding how the Scots view themselves
The University of Edinburgh has a local Government in Scotland site at
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/localgovt.html
http://www.forscotland.com/
the Act of Union is on-line here
Info on devolution and government
---------------------------------
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/ - The Scottish Parliament
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/gaidhlig - in Gaelic
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/visitor/parlguide-scots.pdf - Scots
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/ - The Scottish Office main page
http://www.democracy.org.uk/
UK Citizens Online Democracy (UKCOD) is Britain's first national online
democracy service. We aim to promote informed discussion on matters of
national and local importance by providing a forum for members of the
public to discuss political issues.
The BBC's Scottish Politics programme Scottish Lobby can be reached
at mailto:scottish.lobby@bbc.co.uk
and their website for Scottish politics programmes is at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/scotland/1378868.stm
Scottish issues are sometimes discussed in the programme On The Record
http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/
bopcas-scotland
---------------
British Official Publications Current Awareness Service (BOPCAS)
bopcas-scotland offers weekly updates of the latest UK
government publications relating to Scotland and a forum
to discuss matters arising from them.
Parliament Keywords: Scotland; Scottish; Parliament;
devolution; government; politics; UK
See http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bopcas/ for more info
It costs money to subscribe to this service
[19.3] Scottish politics e-mail lists
ScotTalk
--------
A discussion list about Scottish matters, often with a political
bias. More info at http://www.scottalk.org/
To subscribe, send a message to mailto:majordomo@viemeister.com,
with "subscribe scottalk" in the message body.
Scottish Politics
-----------------
There is also the Scottish politics list. Send a mail to
mailto:majordomo@sportsstats.com
containing
info scottish-politics
in the message body for more information.
[19.4] Government publications
http://www.national-publishing.co.uk/
The Stationery Office is the prime source of government and official
publications in the UK.
[19.5] Scottish sovereignty
Scottish sovereignty was not subsumed by English sovereignty in 1707.
In the case of MacCormick v Lord Advocate 1954 (1953 SC 396), Lord
Cooper stated that "The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of
Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no
counterpart in Scottish constitutional law. ... I have difficulty in
seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of
Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the
English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament...."
This case dealt with the styling of the current monarch as the "second"
of the United Kingdom (there never having been a previous
Queen Elizabeth of the UK). There is a section on the nature of
Scottish constitutional law within the UK in G Mitchell's
'Constitutional Law' (2nd Ed. Wm Green and Son, Edinburgh 1968(ish))
"we are sovereign within the Union and we can walk out any
time we want". Those are the exact words once uttered by Michael
Forsyth, an arch-unionist and Secretary of State for Scotland under
the last Conservative government, uttered January 1997
[19.6] Scottish and English oil and energy reserves
People often ask, how much of the oil/gas etc in the North Sea would
Scotland get if it became independent. The North Sea is already
legally divided into a Scottish sector and an English sector. It has
to be as Scots law is different to English law.
The relevant law is The Continental Shelf (Jurisdictional) Order 1968.
Currently this places 90% of the oil in Scottish waters, however this
percentage is gradually growing as new fields open up to the North of
present fields and also to the West of the mainland.
The SNP advocate dividing the North Sea assets based on the 55.50'
latitude or upon international legal principles of equidistance.
[19.7] Political Quotations
"Show me a man who respects the rights of all countries, but is ready
to defend his own against them all, and I will show you a man who is both
a nationalist and an internationalist".
Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716)
"Independently of my enthusiasms as a Scotsman, I have rarely met with
anything in history which interests my feelings as a man equal with the
story of Bannockburn. On the one hand, a cruel but able usurper, leading
on the finest army in Europe, to extinguish the last spark of freedom
among a greatly-daring & greatly-injured people; on the other hand, the
desperate relics of a gallant nation, devoting themselves to rescue their
bleeding country or perish with her. Liberty! thou art a prize truly
and indeed invaluable, for never canst thou be too dearly bought."
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
" I ken when we had King, and a chancellor, and a Parliment-- men
o'our ain, we could peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude
bairnes. But naebody's nails can reach the length o'Lunnon."
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
"There has been in England a gradual and progressive system of
assuming the management of affairs entirely and exclusively proper
to Scotland, as if we were totally unworthy of having the management
of our own concerns"
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
"Freedom"
Mel Gibson, "Braveheart"
"Tartan Tax"
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland 1996.
"Separatism"
Tony Blair, Prime Minister
"Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government"
Michael Forsyth, 5 days before losing his seat and 5 days
before the Labour party swept to power with a massive majority
"We declare the right of the people of Scotland to the ownership of Scotland,
and to the unfettered control of Scottish destinies, to be sovereign and
indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and
government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished
except by the destruction of the Scots people. The Scots people have
asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty by arms and by
the ballot box. Standing on that fundamental right and asserting it
in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim Scotland as a Sovereign
Independent State and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades
in arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its
exaltation among the nations."
THOMAS J. CLARKE and others
(text adapted and modified from the proclamation of the Irish republic)
"The Scottish Constitutional settlement should be entrenched by a
simple provision in the Scotland Act (the act establishing the
Scottish parliament). Proposed amendments should be approved by a
simple majority in the UK and Scottish parliaments and in a referendum.
The Convention should consider giving the electorate the right to
propose an amendment through a constitutional petition"
Paragraph 5, Page 47 of "Towards a Scottish Parliament".
Consultation document and report to the Scottish people by
The Constitutional Convention. October 1989.
"We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby
acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine
the form of government best suited to their needs, and do hereby
declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their
interests shall be paramount.
We further declare and pledge that our actions and deliberations
shall be directed to the following ends:
To agree a scheme for an Assembly or Parliament for Scotland;
To mobilise Scottish opinion and ensure the approval of the Scottish
people for that scheme;
and to assert the right of the Scottish people to secure the
implementation of that scheme."
The Claim of Right, agreed by the Scottish Constitutional Convention
March 1989.
"The piece of Perthshire sandstone of controversial pedigree which has
come to Scotland in the general interest of party-political advantage
will be sited at a location in Edinburgh, decided upon by the Westminster
Establishment, and will be removed from Scotland if and when a London
government so decides. It is an almost perfect metaphor for devolution"
Alan Clayton, "The Herald", 30-Nov-96
[19.8] Quangos
(Quasi-autonomous non governmental organisations - now called
non-departmental public bodies apparently)
Labour promised us a "bonfire of the quangos" - anyone noticed
any difference yet?
If you think that quangos are over dominated by politicians of a
certain political persuation - here's your chance to go on one
yourself: Write to the Scottish Office and ask for the list of
Non-Departmental Public Bodies. The address is: Room 237, St Andrew's
House, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 3DG Tel: 0131 244 4999 Fax: 0131 244
2683. You will be asked about your political persuations when you
join - this is not used for selection but is simply used for
statistical analysis (do you believe that?)
[19.9] Local Councils
Information on the Scottish local councils
http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/data/councils/contacts/contacts.html
This Edinburgh University site also has an interactive map showing the
local Scottish Councils which is superior to that shown on the Scottish
Office website. The Edinburgh University map is at
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/scotareas.html
and info on local government is at
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/localgovt.html
Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament
http://www.lg-scot-commission.gov.uk/
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
http://www.cosla.gov.uk/
The accounts commission for Scotland
http://www.accounts-commission.gov.uk/
See if your council gives you value for money.
Enacting legislation
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/summary/01994039.htm
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)
Scottish Local Authorities
http://uk.geocities.com/scottishelections/sua/suaindex.htm
http://www.alba.org.uk/links/councilwww.html - council web sites
Specific authorities
--------------------
Aberdeen City http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/Aberdeen/
Aberdeenshire http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/
Angus http://www.angus.gov.uk/
Argyll and Bute http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/
Clackmannan
http://www.premier-pages.co.uk/web-demo/showcase/localgov.htm
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar http://www.w-isles.gov.uk/
Dumfries and Galloway http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/
Dundee City http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/
East Ayrshire http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/
East Lothian http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/
East Renfrewshire http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/
Edinburgh http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/
Fife http://www.fife.gov.uk/
Glasgow City http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/
Highland http://www.highland.gov.uk/
Inverclyde http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/
Midlothian http://www.midlothian.gov.uk/
Moray council http://www.moray.org/
North Lanarkshire http://www.northlan.gov.uk/
Perth and Kinross http://www.pkc.gov.uk/
Renfrewshire http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/
Shetland http://www.shetland.gov.uk/
South Ayrshire http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/
South Lanarkshire http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/
Stirling http://www.stirling.gov.uk/
West Dunbartonshire http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/
West Lothian http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/
Western Isles http://www.w-isles.gov.uk/
[19.10] 1997 General Election results
1997 results
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(2,812,439 total votes)
Electorate 3,946,113 71.3% turnout
Labour 45.65% of vote, 56 seats
SNP 21.96% of vote, 6 seats, (617,260 votes)
Conservative 17.54% of vote, no seats (493,059 votes)
LibDem 13.00% of vote, 10 seats, (365,359 votes)
Referendum party 1.0% of vote, no seats (26,978 votes)
Green 0.06% of vote, no seats
Others 0.80% of vote, no seats
1992 results as comparison
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Labour 39% of vote, 49 seats
Conservative 25.6% of vote, 11 seats
SNP 21.5% of vote, 3 seats
LibDem 13.1% of vote, 9 seats
Others 0.8% of vote, no seats
[19.11] Devolution Referendum Results
Here are the results of the referendum held on 11th September 1997
which asked the Scottish electorate whether they wanted a Parliament
and whether a Parliament should have tax varying powers.
Summary of Results
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Every region voted Yes-Yes, except Orkney and Dumfries & Galloway which
both voted Yes to a Parliament but No to tax raising powers by small
margins.
Q1) Should there be a Scottish parliament
Agree 1,775,045 (74.3%) Disagree 614,400 (25.7%)
Q2) Should the parliament have tax varying powers
Agree 1,512,889 (63.5%) Disagree 870,263 (36.5%)
Turnout 60.4%
Breakdown by local authority, alphabetically
Aberdeen City
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Q1: Agree 65,035 (71.8%) Disagree 25,580 (28.2%)
Q2: Agree 54,320 (60.3%) Disagree 35,709 (39.7%)
Turnout 53.7%. Declared 04:13
Aberdeenshire
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Q1: Agree 61,621 (63.9%) Disagree 34,878 (36.1%)
Q2: Agree 50,295 (52.3%) Disagree 45,929 (47.7%)
Turnout 57.0%. Declared 04:20
Angus
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Q1: Agree 33,571 (64.7%) Disagree 18,350 (35.3%)
Q2: Agree 27,641 (53.4%) Disagree 24,089 (46.6%)
Turnout 60.2%. Declared 03:27
Argyll & Bute
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Q1: Agree 30,452 (67.3%) Disagree 14,796 (32.7%)
Q2: Agree 25,746 (57.0%) Disagree 19,429 (43.0%)
Turnout 65.0%. Declared 04:27
City of Edinburgh
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Q1: Agree 155,900 (71.9%) Disagree 60,832 (28.1%)
Q2: Agree 133,843 (62.0%) Disagree 82,188 (38.0%)
Turnout 60.1%. Declared 03:05
Clackmannanshire
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Q1: Agree 18,790 (80.0%) Disagree 4,706 (20.0%)
Q2: Agree 16,112 (68.7%) Disagree 7,355 (31.3%)
Turnout 66.1%. Declared 00:41
Dumfries & Galloway
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Q1: Agree 44,619 (60.7%) Disagree 28,863 (39.3%)
Q2: Agree 35,737 (48.8%) Disagree 37,499 (51.2%)
Turnout 63.4%. Declared 02:44
Dundee City
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Q1: Agree 49,252 (76.0%) Disagree 15,553 (24.0%)
Q2: Agree 42,304 (65.5%) Disagree 22,280 (34.5%)
Turnout 55.7%. Declared 02:20
East Ayrshire
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Q1: Agree 49,131 (81.1%) Disagree 11,426 (18.9%)
Q2: Agree 42,559 (70.5%) Disagree 17,824 (29.5%)
Turnout 64.8%. Declared 03:46
East Dumbartonshire
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Q1: Agree 40,917 (69.8%) Disagree 17,725 (30.2%)
Q2: Agree 34,576 (59.1%) Disagree 23,914 (40.9%)
Turnout 72.7%. Declared 04:16
East Lothian
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Q1: Agree 33,525 (74.2%) Disagree 11,665 (25.8%)
Q2: Agree 28,152 (62.7%) Disagree 16,765 (37.3%)
Turnout 65.0%. Declared 02:37
East Renfrewshire
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Q1: Agree 28,253 (61.7%) Disagree 17,573 (38.3%)
Q2: Agree 23,580 (51.6%) Disagree 22,153 (48.4%)
Turnout 68.2%. Declared 02:27
Falkirk
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Q1: Agree 55,642 (80.0%) Disagree 13,953 (20.0%)
Q2: Agree 48,064 (69.2%) Disagree 21,403 (30.8%)
Turnout 63.7%. Declared 02:53
Fife
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Q1: Agree 125,668 (76.1%) Disagree 39,517 (23.9%)
Q2: Agree 108,021 (64.7%) Disagree 58,987 (35.3%)
Turnout 60.7%. Declared 03:37 (this result secured the first question)
There was probably a counting error when totalling the Q2 results in
this area as the Q2 votes exceed the Q1 votes by about 2,000. The
number of Q2 votes also exceeds the number of ballot papers issued.
Q2 agree was misrecorded. It should have been 106,214.
Glasgow City
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Q1: Agree 204,269 (83.6%) Disagree 40,106 (16.4%)
Q2: Agree 182,589 (75.0%) Disagree 60,842 (25.0%)
Turnout 51.6%. Declared 03:32
Highland
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Q1: Agree 72,551 (72.6%) Disagree 27,431 (27.4%)
Q2: Agree 61,359 (62.1%) Disagree 37,525 (37.9%)
Turnout: 60.3%. Declared 05:44
Inverclyde
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Q1: Agree 31,680 (78.0%) Disagree 8,945 (22.0%)
Q2: Agree 27,194 (67.2%) Disagree 13,277 (32.8%)
Turnout: 60.4%. Declared 03:21
Midlothian
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Q1: Agree 31,681 (79.9%) Disagree 7,979 (20.1%)
Q2: Agree 26,776 (67.7%) Disagree 12,762 (32.3%)
Turnout 65.1%. Declared 03:09
Moray
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Q1: Agree 24,822 (67.2%) Disagree 12,122 (32.8%)
Q2: Agree 19,326 (52.7%) Disagree 17,344 (47.3%)
Turnout 57.8%. Declared 02:15
North Ayrshire
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Q1: Agree 51,304 (76.3%) Disagree 15,931 (23.7%)
Q2: Agree 43,990 (65.7%) Disagree 22,991 (34.3%)
Turnout 63.4%. Declared 03:50
North Lanarkshire
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