A Dumfries family threatened with deportation from the UK by the Home Office have welcomed support from the Scottish Migration Minister this week. The Samuel family, whose 12-year-old son John featured in the BBC documentary Breadline Kids, visited The…
Joan McAlpine MSP has welcomed the inclusion Dumfriesshire Fair trade pioneer Lorna Young in the new Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women Lorna, who died in 1996, is one of 180 new entries in the dictionary, which is launched today…
A family threatened with deportation by the Home Office is to meet the Scottish Minister for Migration thanks to an intervention from Joan McAlpine MSP. Ms McAlpine, SNP representative for South Scotland, was approached by Dami Samuel after her…
SNP MSP Joan McAlpine has made a direct appeal to the Duke of Buccleuch to show compassion towards the Telfers – a tenant farming couple facing removal from their farm. Ms McAlpine’s letter to the wealthy aristocrat comes on…
A mothballed fibre broadband network could soon go live in Dumfries after the intervention of SNP MSP Joan McAlpine. The state-of-the-art system would turn The Crichton Estate into a “gigabit campus” and attract more jobs and investment to the…
McAlpine To Meet With SSE Heads Over Crichton Campus SNP MSP Joan McAlpine has set up a parliamentary meeting with senior representatives of Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) in a bid to bring an end to the long running…
Joan McAlpine MSP has spoken out in Holyrood for the Dumfries and Galloway communities affected by the Duke of Buccleuch’s sale of the so-called Evertown Portfolio. The South Scotland SNP MSP told parliament that the Duke of Buccleuch is…
SNP MSP Joan McAlpine has welcomed the news that an online petition in support of Alison and David Telfer, a farming couple threatened with removal by the Duke of Buccleuch, has received over 8,000 signatures. Ms McAlpine has campaigned…
Scotland could be a world leader in film and TV production MSP Joan McAlpine told parliament this week. However, we need more studio space to capitalise on the opportunities offered by Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services, she told Holyrood.…
A new online database had laid the bare the cost to Dumfries and Galloway of the UK’s exit from the European Union. The online tool shows that the EU has invested upwards of £90 million in the area across…
This is outrageous. My office got a call around 6pm last night to offer a meeting this morning - purpose not clear. I wasn’t prepared to cancel my constituency commitments at such short notice for @scotgov to yet again have to hear empty platitudes rather than be listened to. https://t.co/8QGwEKp5Mz
This is actually hard to watch. How dare the UK Government create all this anxiety and uncertainty to people who want to live and work in Scotland. This is the social reality of their Brexit. https://t.co/oPoifpMNrg
Over promised, under delivered. Sold out on the way in, sold out on the way out. The draft deal confirms what some of us have long known. That Scottish interests will always be expendable for UK ones and that the Tories cannot be trusted to protect Scotland’s interests.
