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Keith highlights problem of pavement parking
KEITH HIGHLIGHTS PROBLEM OF PAVEMENT PARKING Keith Brown MSP, Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency, met with representatives of the charity Guide Dogs whilst attending the recent Scottish National Party Conference. After meeting with those directly affected by the problems pavement parking and inaccessible streets can pose for people with sight loss,…
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Keith Brown MSP meets with local stroke awareness campaigners following tragic death of father due to unidentified symptoms
LOCAL MSP CALLS FOR SUPPORT FOR STROKE AWARENESS PETITION The MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Keith Brown has recently met with the Bundy family, who are campaigning to raise greater awareness for all the symptoms of a stroke. The father of the family, Tony Bundy, tragically lost his life in June of this year after…
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Keith encourages women and girls to ‘Get Active’
Keith Brown MSP, Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clackmannanshire & Dunblane constituency, has highlighted the important message behind Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week 2023 and is encouraging all women and girls to get involved in local events. The Scottish Government, alongside Scottish Women in Sport and Active Scotland, designed this initiative…
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Keith Brown MSP welcomes £600,000 compensation for victims of Post Office Horizon scandal
The MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Keith Brown, has acknowledged the UK Governments recent announcement to award £600,000 in compensation to those wrongly convicted in the Post office Horizon Scandal. Between 2000 and 2014, The Post Office wrongly prosecuted over 700 branch managers across the UK – an average of one a week. This was…
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NHS Forth Valley given £10.1 million in extra Covid funding
NHS Forth Valley has been given £10.1 million in extra COVID-19 funding from the Scottish Government as part of a £380million package allocated to health boards across Scotland. This comes on top of the £1.7 billion already provided to health boards and Health and Social Care Partnerships last year. The additional funding includes ongoing support…
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MSP calls for greater hate crime awareness
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane MSP, Keith Brown, has welcomed the news that The Scottish Government has joined with Police Scotland and the Crown Office (COPFS) to launch a new campaign against hate crime – ‘Hate has no home in Scotland’. This campaign launches during Hate Crime Awareness Week and will run until the 26 November. It…
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Keith Brown MSP welcomes £50,000 fund to tackle nuisance calls
Keith Brown MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane has welcomed the decision by the Scottish Government to create a £50,000 Nuisance Call fund to help those most at risk from unwanted calls during his attendance at the Which?’s Nuisance Calls campaign event at the Scottish Parliament on the 13 September. This fund will install call-blocking technology for those…
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Keith wears it pink in parliament in aid of Breast Cancer Now
Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, pulled on some eye-catching pink clothes at the Scottish Parliament to encourage people across Clackmannanshire to take part in the UK’s biggest, brightest and pinkest fundraiser, Wear It Pink, on Friday 20 October. Wear It Pink is back for its 16th year, calling on supporters across the country…
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MSP CALLS ON THE UK GOVERNMENT TO TAKE TOUGHER ACTION ON FIXED ODDS BETTING TERMINALS
MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Keith Brown MSP, is calling on the UK Government to take tougher action to tackle the blight of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBT) which remains reserved to Westminster. This action could include reducing the numbers allowed in betting shops, limiting the stakes that can be bet, reducing the time that…
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Keith puts on pink at Holyrood in aid of Breast Cancer Now
MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Keith Brown, has shown his support for women affected by breast cancer by dressing up in pink and encouraging their constituents to take part in the UK’s biggest, brightest and pinkest fundraiser, wear it pink, on Friday 21 October. Back for its 15th year, wear it pink is calling on…
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