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		<title>Large Black Hole in NHS Fife&#8217;s Finances</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/06/large-black-hole-in-nhs-fifes-finances/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brokerage Loan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margo McGurk]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[NHS Fife is struggling financially, as are other NHS Boards in Scotland. In March, the Health Board was forced to ask the Scottish Government for a £11 million loan to break even, but its finance director is forecasting a £29.8 million overspend for the coming year. Introducing her report to the Board last week, Margo &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/06/large-black-hole-in-nhs-fifes-finances/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Large Black Hole in NHS Fife&#8217;s Finances"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>St Andrews students to stay at home</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2021/01/st-andrews-students-to-stay-at-home/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Covid-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Mapstone]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the 8th January, the University&#8217;s Principal, Sally Mapstone, wrote to staff and students to indicate that that with few exceptions, all teaching would go online until March, if not later. Students have been requested to stay at home until further notice. This is the full text of her letter: Dear Students and Colleagues, I &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2021/01/st-andrews-students-to-stay-at-home/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "St Andrews students to stay at home"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New short-term lets legislation proposed</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/10/new-short-term-lets-legislation-proposed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday lets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Watchman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On January 14th this year, St Andrews QV published an article on  growing concerns about residential properties being turned into short term lets for holidays and parties. This is a Europe-wide problem and continues to expand worldwide. Holiday destinations including large cities such as Edinburgh were being affected by a change in the character of &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/10/new-short-term-lets-legislation-proposed/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "New short-term lets legislation proposed"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fife company raises £4M to manufacture novel Covid-19 treatment</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/06/fife-company-raises-4m-to-manufacture-novel-covid-19-treatment/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Covid-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumagen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pneumagen Ltd, a spin-off company of University of St Andrews has been awarded £4 million investment from Thairm Bio (£3M) and the Scottish Investment Bank (£1M). This will allow the Fife company to develop tests of Neumifil, an anti-coronavirus nasal spray on patients in the coming year in a wider effort to prevent and treat &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/06/fife-company-raises-4m-to-manufacture-novel-covid-19-treatment/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Fife company raises £4M to manufacture novel Covid-19 treatment"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>CSARA asks: Is Airbnb ruining our communities?</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/05/csara-asks-is-airbnb-ruining-our-communities/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 21:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederation of St Andrews Resident's Associations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[East Neuk]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Confederation of St Andrews Residents&#8217; Associations (CSARA) has been an active campaigner for the protection of scarce housing stock being utilised as student accommodation and has successfully promoted policies, such as a planning moratorium in the Central Conservation Area, and a policy recently adopted by Fife Council to prevent further homes being turned into &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/05/csara-asks-is-airbnb-ruining-our-communities/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "CSARA asks: Is Airbnb ruining our communities?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Climate change: Scottish Government policies</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/02/climate-change-scottish-government-policies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of a 2 part series by Professor Michael Collins INTRODUCTION  United Nations Annual Climate Change Conferences Later this year Glasgow will be hosting the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). For the last 20 years the UN has convened an annual climate change conference to consider ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/02/climate-change-scottish-government-policies/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Climate change: Scottish Government policies"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Curb on short-term lets: too little too late?</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/01/curb-on-short-term-lets-too-little-too-late/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airbnb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elie and Earlsferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North East Fife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Willie Rennie]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government announced this week that local authorities are to be given new powers to regulate short-term lets where they decide this is in the interests of local communities, enabling them to a licensing scheme from Spring 2021. Councils will be able to designate control areas to ensure that planning permission will always be required &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/01/curb-on-short-term-lets-too-little-too-late/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Curb on short-term lets: too little too late?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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