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...The Scottish government was doing everything it could to help the councils and trade unions reach a resolution on pay, John Swinney told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday....
...Now try this One of my favourite programmes is BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks, which is what I have on in the background when I do the first pass at this newsletter....
...John Swinney, the deputy first minister, has also met unions and Cosla for talks, though these have yet to deliver any breakthrough.On Friday, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the bin strike posed...
...“We took a decision in parliament [to] in principle . . . move ahead with vaccine certificates,” Scotland’s deputy first minister John Swinney told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday....
...“We took a decision in parliament [to] in principle ... move ahead with vaccine certificates,” Scotland’s deputy first minister John Swinney told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday....
...Swinney told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday that case numbers in the areas in question “justified the decision”....
...Swinney then announced plans to go ahead with 2021’s flagship Higher exams, usually taken in the final years of secondary school, only to cancel them in December....
...Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Williamson confirmed that GCSE and A-level exams would not be sat in this academic year, but said only that there would be a “proper and fair system” of appeal...
...Bex Bailey, a former member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme that her assailant had not been an MP, but someone more senior than her in the party....
...She suggested a decision on timing of a re-run of 2014’s failed independence referendum might happen when details of the UK’s Brexit deal emerge towards the end of next year....
...Delay to legislation on tax and welfare powers, which was promised ahead of 2014’s independence referendum, would have muddied the waters of campaigning for Scotland’s May parliamentary elections....
...John Swinney, finance secretary, is widely expected to keep rates aligned with the rest of the UK until Holyrood is granted more powers....
...“We wouldn’t get investment grade from S&P or Moody’s because of their thresholds,” he said....
...Related links: The West Shetland question – FT Alphaville S&P to Dagong (and Moody’s): It’s on – FT Alphaville...
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