http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats en-GB Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats 2010-03-12T07:18+00:00 United Kingdom http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000278/business_rate_rises_liberal_democrats_consult_south_edinburgh_hotels.html Edinburgh South MSP Mike Pringle has sent a survey to businesses in Edinburgh South after research conducted by the Liberal Democrats revealed that business rates for many Scottish hotels are set to rise by tens of thousands of pounds on April 1 this year. 2010-03-10T21:16+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000279/mike_pringle_consults_local_tourism_businesses.html Local MSP Mike Pringle has sent a survey to businesses in Edinburgh South after research conducted by the Liberal Democrats revealed that 2010-03-10T14:00+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000276/get_your_hands_off_our_rocks__say_scottish_liberal_democrats.html The Scottish Lib Dems at their Perth Conference have backed the campaign to keep Britain's rock archive in Edinburgh. The motion - proposed by Edinburgh South Parliamentary Candidate Fred Mackintosh - calls on the British Geological Survey to keep the National Offshore Oil and Gas Rock Archive at Gilmerton where it will be safe and most accessible to industry and academic users. 2010-03-07T12:03+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000275/fred_mackintosh_welcomes_a_green_energy_road_map_for_scotland.html At their conference in Perth today the Scottish Liberal Democrats have approved detailed plans to deliver a green energy revolution to Scotland and to achieve the ambitious carbon reduction targets in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act. 2010-03-05T13:17+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000274/sciennes_gillespies_bruntsfield_and_south_morningside_primaries_left_in_the_lurch_by_the_snp.html The failure of the SNP Government to introduce new rules for class sizes means that P1 classes in many popular schools in Edinburgh South are likely to have more than 25 pupils from August. The news follows a commitment in September 2009 by the then Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop to introduce regulations that would set a limit of 25 for new P1 classes from the start of the August 2010 school year. In 2008 a court case exposed the guideline limit of 25 in P1 as unenforceable. 2010-03-04T18:42+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000277/support_parents_to_be_students__pringle.html Mike Pringle MSP for Edinburgh South has backed calls from NUS Scotland for greater support for parents to help them study at college and university in Scotland. 2010-03-02T12:15+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000272/edinburgh_south_liberal_democrat_candidate_fred_mackintosh_signs_the_power_2010_pledge.html Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Fred Mackintosh has signed up to support the Power 2010 campaign to reform parliament and our political system. 2010-03-02T10:00+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000271/cancer_research_uk_welcomes_fred_mackintoshs_support_for_the_cancer_commitment.html Cancer Research UK has welcomed news that Fred Mackintosh Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesman for Edinburgh South has signed up to the Cancer Commitment, aiming to make UK cancer outcomes among the best in Europe in the next ten years. Fred has joined Liberal Democrat candidates in key seats across the country in signing up to the campaign. 2010-02-28T21:53+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000269/crunch_time_for_scotlands_rock_archive.html Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats Mike Pringle MSP and Parliamentary Candidate Fred Mackintosh have added their voice to widespread industry and academic opposition to the proposed transfer of the UK's national archive of offshore geological cores from Gilmerton in south Edinburgh to Keyworth near Nottingham. Mike Pringle MSP has simultaneously written to the National Audit Office regarding its investigation into the planned move, exposing several apparent flaws in the business case put forward by the British Geological Survey. 2010-02-20T21:40+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000273/fred_mackintosh_objects_to_new_housing_on_greenbelt_farmland_at_burdiehouse_lime_kilns.html Along with concerned local residents Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Fred Mackintosh has objected to plans by Hallam Land Management to build new homes on farmland in the greenbelt at Burdiehouse Lime Kilns. Read his email letter of objection. 2010-02-19T19:48+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000268/fred_mackintosh_and_mike_pringle_msp_campaign_to_oppose_building_on_greenbelt_farmland_at_burdiehouse.html On Monday 15 February 2010 the Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat team of Mike Pringle MSP, prospective MP Fred Mackintosh and local Councillor Conor Snowden visited Hallam Land Management's exhibition of their preliminary proposals for around 100 new homes at Burdiehouse. Over the previous weekend Fred and the Lib Dem team had delivered thousands of letters to local residents to ensure they knew of the exhibition proposals. 2010-02-19T10:00+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000270/scotlands_lib_dem_mep_votes_against_one_way_transfer_of_financial_transactions_to_us_authorities.html George Lyon, Liberal Democrat MEP for Scotland, has voted in the European Parliament to block attempts to transfer confidential information about EU citizens' financial transactions to US counter-terrorism authorities. 2010-02-17T23:00+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000266/nick_clegg_visits_meadows_nursery_in_edinburgh_south.html Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP was in Edinburgh South to visit the excellent Meadows Nursery in Millerfield Place and to highlight the importance of quality early years education. Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat candidate Fred Mackintosh took Nick to visit the Meadows Nursery as the Liberal Democrats are going into the General Election promising to tackle social divisions by investing in quality education for everyone. 2010-02-16T16:01+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000267/end_practice_of_rate_jacking_to_restore_consumer_trust_in_banks__mackintosh.html Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesman Fred Mackintosh has hit out at so called "rate jacking"; the practice of banks and lenders suddenly increasing the rate of interest on credit cards, sometimes by as much as 10%. 2010-02-16T16:18+00:00 http://edinburghsouthlibdems.org/news/000264/fred_mackintosh_backs_green_jobs_manifesto_pledge.html Fred Mackintosh, Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesman for Edinburgh South has pledged his backing to the Liberal Democrats manifesto pledge to create 57,000 jobs across the UK by investing £400m upgrading disused shipyards to enable the production of off-shore wind turbines. 2010-02-11T18:36+00:00