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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour: SNP £140 Million Supermarket Bonanza]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie has condemned the SNP for announcing a minimum price of 45p per unit, which would put over &pound;140 million in the pockets of the big supermarkets without creating a single extra penny for more police or the NHS. Shadow Health Secretary Jackie Baillie said: "The SNP have got this one badly wrong. A minimum price of 45p per unit will make no difference to the cost of problem drinks, like Buckfast, but it will punish pensioners and people on low incomes. "According to the Scottish Government's own study, a minimum price of 45p per unit will...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:39:33</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Jackie Baillie Welcomes Alcohol Commission Report]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie has welcomed the Alcohol Commission's final report as a challenging and radical contribution to the debate about how we reduce the level of alcohol abuse in Scotland The Alcohol Commission rejected the SNP's proposals for Minimum Unit Pricing, arguing that action should be taken across the UK with duty as the main lever for increasing prices, but the report makes a series of other recommendations designed to change Scotland's hard drinking culture: - A floor price on alcohol, which will be based on the combined 'cost of production' + duty + VAT, to stop drink being...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:15:07</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Serious Accident Waiting To Happen If School Bus Service Is Not Reinstated]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Local MSP Jackie Baillie has called on Argyll and Bute Council to reinstate a school bus service for primary school children after there were two road traffic accidents on the route that they use to walk to school. Argyll and Bute council has scrapped their school bus services for primary school children who live under 2 miles away from its schools. However the route that the Council have deemed "safe" for Arrochar primary school pupils has had two accidents in the space of a week and is a known accident blackspot. Jackie who has joined with the pupils and parents...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:55:57</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[SNP Cut Over 1,000 University Places This Year]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Local MSP Jackie Baillie believes the SNP have serious questions to answer over university places after official figures show that, in a year of record demand for university places, the SNP have cut over 1000 places. The figures, revealed in a reply to a Parliamentary Question from Shadow Further and Higher Education Minister, Claire Baker, stated that the SNP have funded 129,733 undergraduate and post-graduate places- 1066 less than last year. The figure is the lowest in three years.  A places crisis has developed this year with reports stating that a number of Scottish Universities were unable to offer...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:40:52</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Local MSP Condemns “Fruitless” Attempt By The SNP To Improve Healthy Eating Options Of Primary School Children]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Local MSP Jackie Baillie has criticised the SNP Government for their "fruitless" attempt to improve the healthy eating options of primary school children after they announced they were pulling out of a free fruit scheme for school children. Free fruit for primary school children was one of a number of pledges that the SNP made to the Scottish public prior to the Scottish Parliamentary election in 2007. Jackie believes the decision to cut the free fruit scheme is the latest in a long line of broken promises from the SNP. She said: "The SNP have treated the free fruit scheme...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:39:00</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[Labour: SNP Losing Argument On Minimum Pricing]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Commenting on the publication of a YouGov poll, which found that most Scots oppose the SNP's plans for minimum unit pricing, Shadow Health Secretary Jackie Baillie said:  "It is clear that the SNP have failed to win the argument for minimum unit pricing in Parliament or in the country. This is a policy that would put over &pound;100 million in the pockets of the big supermarkets without generating a single extra penny for more police or the NHS. Ministers should now work with Labour and the other opposition parties on alternative policies that are credible, evidence-based and legally competent."...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:24:34</pubDate>
                           
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                           <title><![CDATA[No Room For Complacency On Widening Access To Higher Education]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Local MSP Jackie Baillie has said there is no room for complacency on widening access to higher education in Scotland. Jackie has also issued a warning that inaction from the SNP on student support and university places has risked leaving poorer students "out in the cold" this year and in the future. The call comes as figures revealed that 2008 saw a small increase in the rate of participation in higher education, mostly through college, among young people in Scotland&rsquo;s most deprived areas. A places crisis developed this year (2010-11) with the SNP reacting to record demand by refusing to...]]></description>
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                           <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:23:52</pubDate>
                           
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