Politics – Page 3 – St Andrews QV

November 26, 2020January 1, 2021

Jobs or Services? Council faces funding gap dilemma

Fife Council’s Labour co-leader, David Ross, has warned councillors that the Council faces a choice between freezing ...

September 17, 2020October 8, 2020

At last – ‘Spaces for People’ measures to be introduced in St Andrews

Nearly 2 1/2 months after Fife Council received £2.4M from Sustrans, it has has published plans for the first round of ...

August 16, 2020September 11, 2020

Where are the public health measures on our streets?

Eight weeks on from receiving £2.4M for introducing temporary measures to provide more space for pedestrians to physi...

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

First Minister issues guide to easing lockdown over the rest of Phase 2 and early Phase 3

Announcing the route map changes, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: “The sacrifices that have been made – ...

June 13, 2020

Death of Don Macgregor, Olympian, St Andrews teacher, author and local councillor

Former Olympian, councillor, author and co-founder of Fife Athletic Club, Donald MacGregor, has died at the age of 80. F...

May 22, 2020June 13, 2020

First Minister introduces 4-phase routemap out of lockdown

Here are excerpts of the First Minister's speech introducing the the Scottish Government's detailed routemap for through...

April 10, 2020

Councillor voices concern over second homers travelling to Fife for Easter

Councillor Linda Holt, who sits as an independent on Fife Council, said she was alarmed to find AirBnb is still offering...

April 4, 2020October 28, 2024

Government must learn from the current pandemic and make systematic change

Professor Sir Ian Boyd, former Chief Scientific Advisor to DEFRA, warned that despite practice runs for an influenza pandemic being carried out by the UK Government prior to COVID-19, the necessary actions to cope with such a reality were not implemented. Writing in Nature he says: “We learnt...