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Three community projects across Tayside and Fife secure over £2 4m in regeneration funding

Three community projects across Tayside and Fife secure over £2.4m in regeneration funding © Mhairi Edwards Dundee Social Enterprise Network s Chief Executive Julie Farr and Development Officer Angus Greenshields More than £2.4 million in regeneration funding has been handed to three community projects across Tayside and Fife. The Scottish Government grant will see money support the new Y Centre in Perth,  Camperdown Community Growing Hub in Dundee and the Town House Community Hub in Inverkeithing. The YMCA will benefit from £1.5 million of the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) for their project to build a new headquarters over three-floors at the former St Andrews and St Steven’s Parish Church on Atholl Street in the Fair City.

You keep talking, we keep dying : 60% of Dundee s drug victims died alone

© Kris Miller Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Scotland’s new drugs minister has promised a multi-spectrum approach to tackling the country’s horrific drugs death problem, as she revealed 60% of those who died of overdose in Dundee did so alone. MSPs took part in a virtual members debate on Thursday brought to parliament by Scottish Labour health spokesperson Monica Lennon. Ms Lennon called for £20 million additional funding for the country’s drug and substance abuse treatment services.

Members, spending and human failings: How the 2021 Scottish election is shaping up

Members, spending and human failings: How the 2021 Scottish election is shaping up With all going well, residents in Scotland aged 16 and older will head to the polls on May 6. © Sandy McCook / DCT Media With all going well, residents in Scotland aged 16 and older will head to the polls on May 6. But if the first two weeks of 2021 have shown us anything, it’s that not all things are going well. Even before lockdown 2 (lockdown the third in England) doubts were placed on whether the Holyrood election should take place in May, be postponed a couple of months or even moved to next year.

2020 review: The political year that was | Press and Journal

Updated: December 29, 2020, 9:45 am © Kami Thomson / DCT Media Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up In no year has this felt more apparent than 2020. From Boris to Nicola, McPake to Mellon, Mum, Dad, Holyrood and Hollywood, you will scarcely find anyone who does not want to see the year 2020 AD consigned to the history books. So, with 2020 hindsight (ahem), let’s look back at the year that was, our new normal. January Brexit, after almost four years of foul-ups, obfuscations, deals, no-deals, general elections (x2) and all-round uncertainty, did, at least for a short while in January, seem to be nearing its unnatural end.

Drug deaths in Scotland: Minister Joe FitzPatrick loses job

BBC News Published image copyrightPA Media image captionMr FitzPatrick said earlier this week that he would continue doing his job despite calls for him to quit Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick has lost his job in government after Scotland recorded its highest ever number of drug deaths. The first minister has appointed Angela Constance as a minister to take charge of the response to the drugs crisis. She will be a full-time drugs minister, reporting directly to Nicola Sturgeon. Labour and the Liberal Democrats had been demanding Mr FitzPatrick s resignation and were preparing a vote of no confidence in him.

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