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Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
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Public sector accused of paying ‘lip service’ to climate emergency
The public sector in Scotland is being urged to step up its efforts to tackle the climate emergency, after a
Scotland’s waste dump failure ‘could give England £100m’
Scotland’s failure to ban waste dumping could give England a “£100 million landfill tax gift”, an industry body is
New housing estates fail people by favouring cars, says study
New housing estates in Scotland have been branded “car sick” because they pander to drivers at the expense of pedestrians,
Scotland lagging behind the rest of the UK on recycling
Scottish ministers and councils have come under fire after official figures revealed that Scotland recycled less household waste than England,
Government ‘failing to protect Scotland from nuclear convoy crash’
Scotland is “wholly unprepared” to deal with an accident or an attack on the nuclear bomb convoys that regularly travel
Loss of libraries in schools puts Scottish ministers under pressure
Forty per cent of Scotland’s primary schools have no libraries and 99 per cent have no librarians, according to