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Election 2012: Labour becomes Edinburgh's biggest party »

Labour have won the most seats in the Edinburgh City Council elections, grabbing 20 of the 58 seats overall, in an election that saw the Liberal Democrats routed and Council Leader Jenny Dawe fail to be re-elected. After votes in all seventeen wards w...

Fri 04 May 2012 by Dominique Cottee | Read more »

A guide to party policies for the 2012 council elections »

Edinburgh Student Manifesto: Widening participation in colleges and beyond: the council should invest more in adult and community learning to the continuation of wider participation  No HMO quotas, which ‘limit supply and increase rent ...

Tue 01 May 2012 by Dominique Cottee | Read more »

Lib Dem resigns over Nick Clegg's 'lack of political will' »

A former chairman of the Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrats, Roger Beaumont, resigned from the party and criticised leader Nick Clegg on the party’s local website. Mr Beaumont, who stood as the Lib Dem candidate for the constituency of Keighl...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

Nick Clegg admits his election promise didn't "work out in practice" »

The Journal has obtained a personal letter from Nick Clegg to a Lib Dem political party candidate (PPC), acknowledging his divergence from the party's pledges to stop a rise in undergraduate tuition fees. In the letter to Ian Croll, PPC for North Shr...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Clegg announces plans to move Holyrood poll »

Scottish Parliament

Nick Clegg’s plans to change the timetable of Holyrood’s 2015 election have been met with claims the Deputy Prime Minister was showing “gross disrespect." The Westminster and Holyrood elections are due to be held on the same dat...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

Why I still agree with Nick- sort of »

I settled down in front of the TV on election night and genuinely thought I’d have a national result to celebrate by morning. My party leader, Nick Clegg, had blown the general election campaign wide open with his performances in the leaders&rsqu...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

SNP shelve independence referendum »

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has announced its plans to leave their independence referendum until after the May elections. In a public statement, Scottish Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that her party would "let the people decide" on ...

Sun 12 Sep 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Voting? Why should we bother?  »

westminster

In a political seminar late last year, I announced to my university peers that I didn’t intend to vote at the General Election, much to their surprise. Was this not one of the most ‘exciting’ electoral races in the past two decades, a...

Tue 20 Apr 2010 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Labour announce candidate for Edinburgh marginal »

Local councillor Ian Murray has been selected as Labour’s candidate for Westminster in Edinburgh South. Mr Murray pledged to fight to keep the Tories out, warning of the damage they would do to Scotland’s economy. However, Mr Murray faces...

Mon 01 Mar 2010 by Joe Pike | Read more »

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Arts and Entertainment

Stand up for Stanhope

Arts and Entertainment

My my Delilah

Sport

Edinburgh wear down Loughborough to move fourth