There can be few more important subjects than the standard and condition of Scotland’s homes.
Last year myself, Alex Rowley, Mark Ruskell and Liam McArthur wrote to Kevin Stewart on energy efficiency and fuel poverty.
THE CAMPAIGN to save the Woodhall and Faskine estate from development has received a boost after a temporary Tree Preservation Order (TPO) was made permanent.
The initial TPO was secured by Tory MSP Graham Simpson in conjunction with the Woodland Trust last December, as part of the campaign to save
Graham Simpson MSP is calling for urgent action after figures revealed that delayed discharge of patients cost NHS Lanarkshire nearly £17m last year.
The rise in discharging patients who are occupying hospital beds when they no longer require hospital treatment is another blow to the beleaguered He
One local volunteer at the Health and Wellness Centre in Motherwell got a pleasant surprise when an MSP popped in to present her with an award for service to the centre. Saffron Croly recently completed 50 hours of volunteering through the Saltire Awards initiative and Graham Simpson MSP
TORY Graham Simpson pledged his support for MS Society Scotland’s Kiss Goodbye to MS campaign after attending its launch at Holyrood recently. The MSP heard how MS affects more than 11,000 people in Scotland and can cause problems with how we walk, move, see, think and feel.
The MS Socie
James Dornan debates always force me to talk football it seems, so here we go again. The SFA has a decision to make about where the national stadium will be after 2020. As a keen football fan and a supporter of the newly crowned SPFL champions, I have fond memories of Hampden a
The Scottish Conservatives have derided the new Scottish Government target on energy efficiency as ten years too late.
In the 2016 manifesto, the Scottish Conservatives set out a clear target to “achieve transformative change in energy efficiency across Scotland – with all properties achieving an E
The recent story in the East Kilbride News about the family from Kittochside who were robbed by a gang of machete-wielding thugs shocked us all. East Kilbride, like all other towns, has its share of crime, but this incident was on a different scale. Breaking into someone's home at 4
As the world finally wakes up to the plague of plastic pollution, I’m delighted to see one company from Airdrie at the forefront of the battle to tackle this epidemic. Many of you may have already seen the horrific pictures from the excellent Sir David Attenborough programme The Blue Plan
Graham Simpson recently teamed up with The Brain Tumour Charity to support Brain Tumour Awareness Month (BTAM).
Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and of adults under 40 in the UK and reduce life expectancy by 20 years on average.
The impact of a brain tumour diagnosis on qual
