Gourock Highland Games, the first games of the Scottish season, will take place in Inverclyde at Battery Park on Sunday 12th May!

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Another great campaigning session today in Wemyss Bay, once again hearing how let down people feel by the SNP and the Tories.

This week we’ve been in every corner of the constituency and will campaigning every day until the election. Join us: jdr.labour.org.uk/join-journey

PEOPLE in Inverclyde are being invited to give their views on a new plan to reform the way bus services are organised and run dlvr.it/T5S9kH 👇 Full story

Kilmacolm Dramatic Society’s 2024 Spring production is an adaptation of Peter Gordon’s – Murdered to Death.

Show dates are April 25th, 26th, & 27th in the Kidston Hall Kilmacolm discoverinverclyde.com/whats-on/event…

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Campaigners have questioned whether Glasgow can afford to host another Commonwealth Games after the last event in the city cost £543 million.

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Mackay: STUC General Secretary predicts strikes... who can blame her? “The starting point for this is our refusal to accept the denigration of our public services generally, or the continued chronic underfunding of our local authorities specifically”. heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

Time is fast running out Geoff. The pact with the Greens is lethal

This would create a by-election opportunity for Christopher McEleny to return to the Council. We have missed him...

A figment of your vivid imagination. Had you been on the Planning Board I am sure you would have declared an interest given your associations.

Last night's Inverness South (Highland) council by-election result, first preferences:

IND: 22.1% (+22.1)
LDEM: 19.7% (+11.1)
SNP: 19.4% (-15.8)
CON: 16.1% (-0.8)
LAB: 11.0% (+3.8)
GRN: 7.2% (+1.8)

No other Ind (-24.8) as prev.

Valid votes cast: 3,305

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I see Glasgow could be in the running to host 2026 Commonwealth Games. Don’t forget the ‘legacy’ for people with learning disabilities after 2014. They lost their centre - bulldozed to make way for a bus park for The Games - and hasn’t been replaced. It’s now derelict wasteland.

Lesley Riddoch suggests that a new currency in an independent Scotland would be “no bother” because card payments exist. Clearly an Emma Harper fan. (Clip from her film about Denmark.)

But we don't have public sector strikes in Scotland do we Kevin Pringle ?

This week I've been out in Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire campaigning with our brilliant General Election candidates.

This week’s polls and conversations on the doors show real momentum for change with Scottish Labour

Political parties struggle at times to get candidates to stand at elections. This leads to people being encouraged to stand who don't know what they are letting themselves in for. All it takes is one misstep in the middle of a febrile political environment and you become the news

Just watched the full story on STV. No comment from Glasgow City Council. How can the Scottish Commonwealth Games Committee bid to host the games in Glasgow without the support of Glasgow City Council? Are they trying to bounce the Council into supporting a bid?

Volunteers at a Dundee foodbank have been demonstrating outside their centre in a bid to fight off an eviction notice served by the council.

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The story specifically says 'there is no Glasgow bid' so why does the headline say there is?

Our campaign in Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey is officially up and running! The Tories and SNP may be lagging in the polls, but they have deep pockets. If you can afford to, please consider helping to level the playing field: gofund.me/e2f42697

THE iconic Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow were illuminated in blue to raise awareness of Parkinson’s. dlvr.it/T5QV9d 👇 Full story