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  Orkney_Islands
Orkney is also a former county, and a Lieutenancy area, and the Orkney constituency of the Scottish Parliament.
The Orkney Islands are represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the Orkney and Shetland constituency, which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
In the Scottish Parliament the Orkney Islands are themselves the Orkney constituency, which elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post system.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orkney_islands.html   (2704 words)

  
 Tony Blair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the early 1980s, he was involved in the Labour Party in Hackney South and Shoreditch, where he aligned himself with the "soft left" who appeared to be taking control of the party.
The agreement was finally signed on 10 April 1998, and on 26 November 1998 Blair became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
In an address to the European Parliament, Blair stated: "I believe in Europe as a political project.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Blair   (10095 words)

  
 Akerbeltz.org - Official Status for Gaelic
There is no Act of Parliament conveying such status to the language, as with Welsh; nor, given Britain’s lack of a written constitution, is there any kind of constitutional protection, such as Irish enjoys in the Irish Republic.
To similar effect is the Scottish Land Court Act 1993 (1993 c.45, s.1(5)), requiring a Gaelic-speaking member on the seven-member Land Court, which deals with non-crofting land disputes in the Highlands and Islands as part of its national remit.
The Dynamics of Scottish Gaelic (paper presented to the Language Policy and Planning in the European Union Conference Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 28-29 April 1995).
www.akerbeltz.org /rannsachadh/officialstatus.htm   (7725 words)

  
 URBAN MYTHS - COLLECTING WALKERS CRISP PACKETS AND RELATED HOAXES (CASH FOR TRASH HOAXES)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
South Leith Kirk, Scotland: dairy (unnamed) to provide child's wheelchair in return for child's weight in screw-on milk bottle tops for recycling.
South Tawton County Primary School, Devon spent several months collecting plastic milk bottle tops for a "wheelchair provision scheme" and took several sacks full of plastic tops to the local Lions Club.
Back in 1982 there was a little Scottish boy called Buddy in hospital in Glasgow, dying of leukaemia or cancer.
www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk /humor-site/walkers-hoax.htm   (8421 words)

  
 Billy's blog: Life of Billy Archives
The barber thought the missing constituent in my explicature was ‘all over my head including the top’ when I thought he’d realise I meant ‘just the back and sides’.
I think it’s a shame as she was a good local MP and worked really hard for her constituents.
Brian Haw has been in Parliament Square continuously since 1st June 2001 in protest against the US/UK support of economic sanctions in Iraq, the invasion of Iraq and the ‘war on terror’.
blogs.pumpernickle.net /billy/life_of_billy   (16335 words)

  
 66th IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - 13-18 August 2000
Frans Lettenstrom (Academic Press, covering the territory of South Europe, Africa, South and Central America and Near/Middle East).
THEO BOTHMA and RETHA SNYMAN (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
The thinking preferences of learners in cataloguing and classification: summary of a study of second-year students at the University of Pretoria
www.ifla.org /IV/ifla66/66cp.htm   (9557 words)

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