Colin Fox MSP has an article in today's Scotsman newspaper. This content is not available online without a subscription. So get down to the newsagent!
Scotsman: "NHS principles dictate that prescriptions should be free to all
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COLIN FOX
THE Scottish Parliament will make history on 26 January when it votes on my bill to abolish NHS prescription charges.
Either it will agree to change the law and abolish the charges, or, for the very first time, it will vote down a bill recommended to it by the lead committee of the parliament."
Colin Fox MSP's bill to scrap prescription charges is to be debated on Wednesday 25th January in the Scottish Parliament.
Supporters of the bill are calling for a lobby of the parliament at 12 noon on that day, please try to make it along.
Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - High drama as tree lovers rooted out: "POLICE and security teams clashed with tree protesters yesterday in the path of a bitterly fought-over £40 million bypass.
In scenes reminiscent of the environmental roads protests of the 1990s, dozens of police and trained eviction officials swarmed at first light on to the woodland site of the proposed A68 Dalkeith northern bypass on the outskirts of Edinburgh...
However, after the evictions there were calls for a rethink over the scheme. Colin Fox, the Lothians MSP and leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, backed the protesters.
He said: 'Despite the actions today, the basic demand of the protesters remains - that the proposed route of the bypass should be reassessed in the context of the changing profile of the transport network and the value of Dalkeith Park as a natural and recreational resource.'"
