THE seat that includes Holyrood, Edinburgh Central is also home to the hottest fight to get into it. Labour-held for three terms, then gained by the SNP in 2011, it was the scene of a sensational upset at the last election, when Ruth Davidson came from fourth place to snatch it by 610 votes. The SNP have been seething ever since. Often at each other. After Ms Davidson quit as Scottish Tory leader in 2019 and reset her satnav for the House of Lords, the looming vacancy triggered an almighty fight for the SNP candidacy here. Dethroned as the party s Westminster leader by Douglas Ross in 2017, former Moray MP Angus Robertson applied, as did Edinburgh South West MP Joanna Cherry.
Police in East Dunbartonshire DANGEROUS driving and parking has been the focus for cops doing patrols near East Dunbartonshire schools. Officers in the division attended Milngavie Primary School and Early Learning Centre, Mosshead Primary School in Bearsden and Millersneuk Primary School in Lenzie this week. One local said: “Thanks for coming to Millersneuk. For some reason it was really quiet. There are normally parked cars all the way down Lindsaybeg and up Orchard Brae, narrowing the road to a single track. It’s a riot.” Another added: “You’ll need to keep this up as it was chaos on Wester Cleddens Road again outside Wester Cleddens Primary.”