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		<title>Forth Road Bridge Bill: a white elephant we cant afford?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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TOMORROW the long awaited Bill for a new road crossing of the Forth will be presented to parliament with the likely support of all MSPs except the two Greens.
The government is pressing ahead despite last week&#8217;s YouGov poll for Friends of the Earth showing that 57% want the bridge repaired, not replaced. A funding row [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brucewhitehead.wordpress.com&blog=4998966&post=532&subd=brucewhitehead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scotsman re-posts censored letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice to see that after a stiff email to the Press Complaints Commission and the Scotsman&#8217;s Readers&#8217; Editor Ian Stewart, the letter referred to below has now been re-instated on the Scotsman website for the publication date, 1 June.
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		<title>The Scotsman gags anti-bridge campaigner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SCOTSMAN has landed another blow for press freedom &#8211; by proving it has the freedom to ignore and suppress those views it doesn&#8217;t like. After publishing my letter criticising plans for a new Forth road bridge in the paper on Monday 1 June, editors at the increasingly tabloid rag took umbrage at my opinion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brucewhitehead.wordpress.com&blog=4998966&post=516&subd=brucewhitehead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Peckham barber story in Guardian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See my piece in the paper here; last item
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		<title>Even more France&#8230;</title>
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		<title>FETA in confusion over cable drying</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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CONFUSION HAS arisen over the dehumidification work being carried out on the Forth road bridge, following a public meeting in South Queensferry attended by four MSPs and around 60 local residents. The SNP Lothians MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville told the audience that thebridge’s chief engineer Barry Colford had denied saying he was ever “highly confident” that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brucewhitehead.wordpress.com&blog=4998966&post=389&subd=brucewhitehead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Exxon Valdez? The oil didn&#8217;t go away&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[







&#8220;Gail, Please! Stick your hand in it!&#8221;



 The petite Eskimo-Chugach woman gave me that you-dumb-ass-white-boy look.
 &#8221;Gail, Gail. STICK YOUR DAMN HAND IN IT!&#8221;
She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village&#8217;s fishing ground. Gail&#8217;s hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brucewhitehead.wordpress.com&blog=4998966&post=382&subd=brucewhitehead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Aid reaches Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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by BRUCE WHITEHEAD
EIGHTEEN SCOTTISH volunteers have successfully delivered 25 tonnes of medicines to Gaza after a marathon 3,700-mile drive through Europe. The aid was donated by multi-faith groups including churches and mosques across Scotland. Despite setting off a week after the George Galloway convoy, the 17 Muslims from Glasgow, Preston and Bolton mosques, joined by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brucewhitehead.wordpress.com&blog=4998966&post=324&subd=brucewhitehead&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish lady hijacks Gaza convoy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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The Guardian Diary today relates my story of how a lady motorist managed to pull over the Scottish Gaza medicine convoy in Germany; unfortunately the Guardian got confused and thought we were the George Galloway convoy&#8230; now where would we get Havana cigars like his? Read the story here (second par)
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		<title>Forth road bridge contractor also makes nuclear weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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The Guardian Diary today publishes my story about how the Scottish government, which wants Trident gone, is letting Jacobs Engineering, which makes nuclear bombs, build the new Forth bridge. Read the Guardian piece here (5th paragraph) and the full story, including the split in Scottish CND, below.
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