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In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

  
  The Sunday Mail - NEWS - WEE FREE LOVE
Alasdair Morrison, 44, was sacked from his position as elder of the Free Church (Continuing).
Morrison was a high-profile member of the church in Ardelve, by Loch Alsh.
Morrison and The Rev Craig were staunch opponents of Free Church professor Donald Macleod, who in 1996 was found not guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court of several sexual assaults.
www.sundaymail.co.uk /news/page.cfm?objectid=12667461&method=full&siteid=86024   (440 words)

  
  Alasdair Morrison (Jardine's) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alasdair Morrison is presently the Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
Morrison was then courted by several companies based in Asia but decided to join investment banking giant Morgan Stanley as its Chairman and CEO for Asia.
Morrison is known among his peers and colleagues as hard working, incredibly intelligent but reserved, having quickly worked his way up the corporate ladder from the bottom ranks shows his talent and skill in corporate management.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alasdair_Morrison_(Jardine's)   (372 words)

  
 News Releases: June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Western Isles MSP Alasdair Morrison and senior representatives from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Highlands and Islands Enterprise met yesterday (Monday) to establish a pilot study on a reduction in inter-island ferry fares of 33%for commercial vehicles.
Alasdair Morrison said: “This is the third meeting that I have had with the Convenor and Vice- Convenor to discuss measures that will help to improve the viability of some of our business and commercial opportunities in the Western Isles.
Alasdair Morrison said: “ I urge the minister and his UK counterpart to ignore in their discussions the pleadings of those who wish to ban tankers from the Minch.
www.yourmsp.co.uk /NewsReleasesJune2004.htm   (8838 words)

  
 Alasdair Macintyre web page
When considering the work of V.R Morrison, an artist who works in perhaps the oldest of traditions, that of figurative representation, it is difficult not to align her work to what has gone before, and of course her contemporary practitioners.
The obvious sensitivity to the feminine ideals in Morrisons work could well be compared to that of Portuguese-born, British based painter Paula Rego, or, in a filmic sense, to that of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, creator of the “Three Colours” trilogy.
Alasdair Macintyre is an artist and graduate of Q.C.A and A.C.U. Lucie-Smith, Edward, (1997), Sexuality in Western Art, Thames and Hudson, London.
www.alasdairmacintyre.com /essay6.htm   (918 words)

  
 Future for Sale (part II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Murdo Morrison, retired hotelier, Justice of the Peace, Vice Lord Lieutenant, is plainly hostile to notions of community ownership.
Alasdair Morrison rises again to explain the meeting is only to mandate the steering group to explore the feasibility of a buy-out.
Morrison points out half the estate is designated croftland and, even under the law as it stands, the crofters have a right to buy that land outright for only 15 times the annual rental.
www.whoownsscotland.org.uk /articles/herald2.htm   (1286 words)

  
 About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As an independent practice of property specialists, Alasdair Morrison and Partners are committed to providing the highest possible level of professional service to all our customers, relating to the sale, purchase, letting, valuing, surveying and management of residential and rural property within Newark, Southwell and surrounding villages.
Under the personal leadership of Alasdair Morrison, the company has expanded rapidly since the opening of the Southwell office in 1975, Farnsfield office in 1989 and Newark in 1998.
Alasdair Morrison, qualified since 1982, has considerable local experience and, with the backing of excellent sales and support staff, the company provides an enviable service tailored to meet the clients' demands and circumstances.
www.amorrison.co.uk /about_us.htm   (368 words)

  
 Alasdair Morrison - Joiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alasdair Morrison is a small and personally owned joinery business based in the south side of Edinburgh.
With over 20 years experience we are able to offer a friendly bespoke service from the initial enquiry to the completion of the work.
With Alasdair's team, knowledge and expertise we are able to offer the complete domestic joinery service to all our customers.
www.alasdair-morrison.com   (71 words)

  
 Alasdair Morrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alasdair Morrison (Gaelic: Alasdair Moireasdan) is a Scottish Labour Party politician.
Alasdair Morrison worked for the BBC in Inverness, Glasgow and Stornoway.
Alasdair is a member of the Environment and Rural Development Committee Scottish Parliament.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alasdair_Morrison   (214 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | Minister's 'regret' over Italy trip
Alasdair Morrison was speaking for the first time after he returned to the UK from his overseas trip.
Mr Morrison flew home on Friday to be with his wife, family and his father-in-law, who is very ill in hospital.
Mr Morrison's efforts to assist the industry have been well received, but the timing of his trip has been attacked.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1275587.stm   (523 words)

  
 Western Isles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Westminster election of 2001 saw decreases in both the Labour and SNP votes in Scotland with the Labour vote falling by 2.3 % from 45.6 % to 43.3 % and the SNP vote falling from 22.0 % to 20.1 %.
Alasdair Morrison was born on North Uist in 1968.
Morrison was sacked by Jack McConnell and responsibility for Gaelic taken from one of the two native speakers in the parliament to Lord Watson of Invergowrie.
www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/h08.html   (1479 words)

  
 Planning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The planning department is personally headed by Alasdair Morrison who advises local, individual and corporate clients on planning and development matters within Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
From an individual building plot to a full scale housing development site we are able to help clients identify an opportunity, prepare valuations, advise on tax issues, liaise with architects and planners and to smoothly supervise the planning process through to a successful decision notice.
Alasdair Morrison and Partners also act for many of the prominent local, regional and national house builders in the sale of their new homes, and understand their specific land requirements and can achieve successful sales of clients' land without the need for full marketing and publicity.
www.amorrison.co.uk /consultancy.htm   (160 words)

  
 Sunday Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alasdair Morrison, member for the Western Isles, has helped address the concerns of the Scottish Golf Union (SGU) over the past two months.
Morrison also seemed to back his brother’s client last week by supporting the SGU’s call for a rethink of legislation passed in the parliament’s first term.
Morrison’s interventions have surprised parliamentary insiders, who recall the MSP as being a staunch defender of the Land Reform Act.
www.sundayherald.com /print55878   (512 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Politics - Morrison gives Deacon short shrift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alasdair Morrison, the Western Isles Labour MSP, has rounded on Deacon - who this month announced she was quitting Holyrood - claiming she only became disenchanted with Scottish Parliament politics after she lost her place in the Cabinet.
In a Gaelic interview with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, Morrison said of Deacon and her criticisms of devolution: "Maybe Susan Deacon is leaving politics because her views did not win out in the Scottish Labour Party and that's why she's leaving now.
Morrison might want to take a more grown up approach that encourages debate around the issues rather than adopting a bunker mentality and launching petty attacks on people who are trying to encourage that debate and lead the discussion.
news.scotsman.com /POLITICS.CFM?id=1262312006&bad=42647   (614 words)

  
 News | Telegraph
That, at least, seems to be the attitude of Alasdair Morrison, the Scottish tourism minister who has legged it southwards for a touch of la dolce vita.
Mr Morrison, who is one of the abler ministers in Henry McLeish's team, has spent much of the last two weeks shouting from the rooftops that the Scottish countryside has not been closed completely by the foot and mouth outbreak.
Mr Morrison is not the first politician to be hoist on his own utterances and he will certainly not be the last.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/04/12/nscot112.xml   (788 words)

  
 BW Online | April 26, 1999 | The Taipan's Last Chance (int'l edition)
If Morrison succeeds in his quest for profitability, he could put the Jardine group at the forefront of a wave of downsizing and refocusing among Asian companies, similar to what Corporate America went through in the 1980s.
Morrison's first job for the company was selling space on cargo ships that called in Hong Kong, filling them with exports ranging from electronics and textiles to Chinese sea-grass mats.
Morrison also asserts the group is improving profitability, even though it isn't reflected in the numbers.
www.businessweek.com /archives/1999/b3626011.arc.htm   (2355 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
The taipan -- or big boss -- is Alasdair Morrison, 48, who was named managing director in 1994.
But then Eton- and Cambridge-educated Morrison is a Scotsman like company founders William Jardine and James Matheson, who moved to Hong Kong in 1841 after forming their hong -- trading firm -- in Canton nine years earlier.
Morrison says the $300 million Jardines spent for the Trafalgar shares was meant "to help introduce the expertise it had on the engineering and infrastructure side to Asia.
www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/96/0614/biz1.html   (2211 words)

  
 Allan Wilson MSP - Working for the people of Cunninghame North - Speeches to the Scottish Parliament - 2002
Alasdair Morrison is right to champion the potential for renewable development on Lewis and in the Western Isles.
I give Alasdair Morrison the assurance that he seeks in respect of the continued participation of Executive officials in the process.
I want to say something about Arnish to Alasdair Morrison, who asked if colleagues in the enterprise and lifelong learning department are involved in discussions.
www.allanwilsonmsp.com /pages/speeches/2002/westernislesspeech.html   (1229 words)

  
 Morgan Stanley Asia Chief Quits - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Morrison, 58, a former “taipan” of Jardine Matheson, will quit as chairman of the Asian arm of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people) on April 4.
An avid runner, Morrison’s first venture after stepping down will be to step out on a 250-kilometer race in China’s Gobi Desert, a seven-day, multistage event organized by RacingThePlanet, a profitable Hong Kong outdoor adventure company founded by his marathon runner wife, Mary K. Gadams.
In tapping Morrison, Morgan Stanley’s Chairman and CEO Philip Purcell was making a risky bet as Morrison was an outsider to investment banking and lacked Wall Street links.
www.forbes.com /facesinthenews/2007/03/09/morganstanley-morrison-retires-markets-equity_cx_jc_0309autofacescan1.html   (526 words)

  
 Labour confirm visit part of election plan — SNP - Scottish National Party
NP Deputy Leader Nicola Sturgeon MSP today responded to the admission by Labour MSP Alasdair Morrison that the visit by the First Minister to the Western Isles yesterday (Monday) was rearranged to fit in with the Labour Party's General Election schedule.
On BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme today (Tuesday), Mr Morrison stated that the timing of the visit by the First Minster to the Western Isles was rearranged due to the fact that the Leader of the Labour Party was to make a campaigning visit for the General Election to Scotland today.
Mr Morrison said that the reason the visit was rearranged:
www.snp.org /press-releases/2005/snp_press_release.2005-04-12.9077415628   (418 words)

  
 Triple A: Searching For The Invisible Man
I think Morrison is extremely well read in the esoteric, and has obviously practised it a little and possibly a lot, but I think he wants to be mainstream.
I would qualify Morrison as a genius, especially if you take the definition that a genius is someone who does something completely new with the medium and leaves the field very different to how he entered it, and I think Morrison's achieved both those things.
WATSON: Morrison and Moore are the sort of people who both express the sort of ideas I find myself groping towards in my thinking on life, expressing the ideas I'm developing much more clearly and succinctly than I've been able to.
www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=433   (3015 words)

  
 West Highland Free Press Local Newspaper for the Isle of Skye and Western Isles in the Gaelic and English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Western Isles MSP Alasdair Morrison said this week that he would table an amendment to the Bill, requiring that one per cent of public-sector press advertising by relevant bodies in Scotland should be through the medium of Gaelic.
Mr Morrison’s proposal is well-founded in parallel legislation for Wales and Ireland.
Alasdair Morrison said this week: “This is an eminently reasonable proposal which has the great advantage of not requiring new money.
www.whfp.com /1695/local.html   (782 words)

  
 Alasdair Morrison continues efforts to rebuild Dumfries and Galloway tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alasdair Morrison continues efforts to rebuild Dumfries and Galloway tourism
The visit was arranged to enable Mr Morrison to see, at first hand, how tourism businesses have continued to cope with the effects of the Foot and Mouth outbreak.
Today’s visit is the fulfilment of an undertaking given by Mr Morrison at Castle Douglas on the 16 March to return to region and see how the area was coping with the Foot and Mouth outbreak.
www.scotland.gov.uk /news/2001/04/se1137.asp   (445 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Fury at tourism minister's foreign holiday
Alasdair Morrison left for a one-week break in Italy at the start of the Scottish parliamentary recess at the weekend.
He said: "Everyone is entitled to a holiday, but Alasdair Morrison is paid a ministerial salary to promote Scottish tourism and that is what he should be doing during the industry's hour of need."
She said: "Alasdair Morrison has had a holiday booked in Italy since the beginning of the year.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1272612.stm   (308 words)

  
 Western Isles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Labour have chosen Alasdair Morrison who is the editor of New Gael and Reporting Scotland's Western Isles correspondent.
The contest here will be the battle of the Alasdairs as the Scottish National Party have selected another Alasdair - Alasdair Nicholson, who, like his Labour namesake is also a first time candidate.
Alasdair Nicholson is the director of a charitable company and will be hoping to achieve the 12 % swing which will be necessary to take this, the SNP's longest continually held constituency, away from London Labour and back to Scotland's Party.
www.alba.org.uk /scot99constit/h08.html   (792 words)

  
 Observer | Land of the free(ish)
Now there is Alasdair Morrison, MSP for the Western Isles, closing the Land Reform Debate with, 'The landowners' day is over.
The Tories screamed bias because these unhappy gillies and water bailiffs, many of whom were protesting outside Parliament, had been ignored by the committee (Justice 2) which examined the bill.
The Tories pointed out that if crofters bought the rivers, then these people's jobs were on the line, and thought it awful they were handled roughly by the MSPs, in particular Alasdair Morrison.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4591751-102273,00.htm   (885 words)

  
 The Salmon Farm Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Never far behind in the brown-nosing stakes, Western Isles MSP Alasdair Morrison said that he also asked Mr Blair to help: “He has a remarkable depth of knowledge about the industry.
Alasdair Morrison has already picked up his reward for the part he played in this ‘sham’.
Allan Wilson preened: “I am very happy that Alasdair Morrison has been appointed and I look forward to him sharing with us his expertise in fish farming.
www.salmonfarmmonitor.org /ncjuly2004.shtml   (901 words)

  
 THE QUEEN OF SPIN : Alasdair Morrison Sunday Mirror - Find Articles
It appears that Highlands and Islands Minister Alasdair Morrison has been undermining the authority of his brother John, a highly-respected BBC political correspondent.
The feud began last week when John suggested that the weaver who made his brother's orange tweed jacket was suffering from colour blindness.
Alasdair was overheard dismissing John as "nothing more than a crustacean correspondent".
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20000514/ai_n14505900   (167 words)

  
 The Last Desert 2006 (Antarctica) -- Live   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alasdair Morrison poses with The Last Desert banner before boarding his Cathay Pacific flight.
January 12, 2006, Hong Kong-based Alasdair Morrison becomes the first competitor to start making his way to the starting line of The Last Desert 2006.
Alasdair Morrison is representing Scotland and Hong Kong in his fourth 4 Deserts event.
www.racingtheplanet.com /thelastdesert/live/news-one.shtml   (152 words)

  
 Morgan Stanley - Press Release
“Alasdair has been instrumental in our expansion and strong performance in Asia,” said John J. Mack, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in September 2000, Alasdair Morrison spent 28 years in Asia with the Jardine Matheson Group, latterly as Group Managing Director.
Morrison, 58, will continue to be based in Hong Kong.
www.morganstanley.com /about/press/articles/4569.html   (238 words)

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