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Topic: Forfar (UK Parliament constituency)

	Forfar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Burgh of Forfar is a burgh of approximately 13,500 people, located in the unitary authority of Angus in Scotland.
		A "claimant" to the throne, the daughter of the leader of the Meic Uilleim, who were descendants of King Duncan II, had her brains dashed out on Forfar market cross in 1215 while still an infant.
		Some bridges and cuttings still survive as well as the site of the goods station, which was also the town's original railway station before the one near the county buildings was built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forfar (388 words)

	Historical perspective for Forfar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After a time the Forfar folk got possession of their property, but the Dundee magistrates refused to let it be conveyed away unless the town of Forfar bought all the ground it would pass over between the quay and the boundary of Dundee.
		Patrick Abercrombie, physician and historian, was born at Forfar in 1656; and John Jamieson, D.D. (1759-1839), of 0 Scottish Dictionary 'fame, was minister of the Secession congregation from 1780 till 1797.
		The presbytery of Forfar comprehends the quoad civilia parishes of Forfar, Aberlemno, Cortachy, Dunnichen, Glamis, Inverarity, Kinnettles, Kirriemuir, Oathlaw, Rescobie, and Tannadice, the quoad sacra parishes of Clova, Forfar St James, Kirriemuir-South, and Glenprosen.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townhistory392.html (3410 words)

	Forfar - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Forfar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Administrative centre and former royal burgh in Angus unitary authority, Scotland, at the eastern end of Forfar Loch in the fertile valley of Strathmore, 23 km/14 mi northeast of Dundee; population (1991) 13,000.
		Forfar was the royal residence of Malcolm III, king of Scotland from 1058.
		Robert (I) the Bruce destroyed Forfar's castle after capturing it from the English in the early 14th century.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Forfar (200 words)

	Horserace Betting and Olympic...: 8 Jan 2004: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		We will ensure that we engage with the decision makers in every part of the UK to ensure that there are benefits from the Olympic and Paralympic games being held in London, as well as from the major cultural festival that would run alongside the games in 2012.
		The levy board owns two institutions, both of which are in my constituency: the Horseracing Forensic Laboratory, which is at the cutting edge of scientific investigation and the integrity of the racing industry, and the National Stud.
		In my constituency of Bath, for example, we have an excellent race course which is booming and at which figures are improving.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2004-01-08.442.0 (12783 words)

	Historical perspective for Dundee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The municipal and parliamentary constituency was-1871, 16,281; 1877, 18, 964; 1881, 15, 827.
		By an act of parliament, passed in June 1830, the management of the harbour was transferred from the commissioners appointed under a previous statute to a board of trustees, elected annually; and by a subsequent act, obtained in the year 1869, the constitution of this trust was changed, and the representation enlarged.
		The ex officio members are the Provost of Dundee; the Sheriff Substitutes of Dundee and at Forfar; the embers of Parliament for Dundee; one member elected by Owen's College, Manchester; one by the Lord President of the Privy Council or the Minister of Education; and one by the Principal and Professors of the College.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townhistory399.html (6352 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Have Your Say: Wallace steps down
		He can also stop travelling free on the buses if he is a pensioner and should he ever become homeless, he can opt out of the Act that makes it a legal requirement for councils to offer him a place to stay and also the one that sets a decency standard on all Scottish housing.
		Putting the brakes on Labour will never be easy given the size of their vote but JW and team have done this effectively on behalf of the majority who chose not to vote Labour at the Holyrood election.
		What the people of Scotland voted for was not a Lib/Lab pact in the Scottish Parliament, but that the Labour party should be answerable to the whole parliament for their actions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/talking_point/4528495.stm (3841 words)

	Democracy in UK? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We are all concerned about the low turnouts in local elections, but many of my constituents ask why they should bother to vote in local elections again if those who are elected have no power over some of the most significant issues that affect our area most deeply.
		The UK, however, is about to commit one of the primary sins of IT system specification by commissioning a project without first figuring out how (or whether) it can achieve its stated objectives.
		March 28 ~ Apathy In The UK Sunday Herald "Across the world, voters are exercising their democratic right to voice opposition to government.
	www.faringdon.org.uk /WARMWELL/warm1dem.html (20035 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Betty Cohen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		JOHN Swinney, Member of the Scottish Parliament for North Tayside, met up with Dr Betty Cohen of the Dalhousie Day Centre, Brechin, last Monday prior to her taking part in the official opening ceremony of the new Scottish Parliament building as Mr Swinney's constituency guest.
		Mr Swinney previously asked constituents to nominate people from North Tayside who had contributed greatly to the local community, and Betty was chosen from the huge number of nominees.
		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth officially opened the parliament, located at the foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, in the culmination of a series of events to mark the historic occasion.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Cohen_Betty_501927327.htm (885 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		Tayside North is a very large constituency to the north of the Perth constituency it borders.
		An inland constituency that is rural and very picturesque, the main activities in the constituency are tourism, agriculture and forestry.
		Swinney was Salmond's deputy leader of the SNP and like Cunningham, his candidacy and presence could pose a severe handicap for the Conservatives at the next general election.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT3UQE7YJKC.html (224 words)

	The Scottish Parliament - Current Members - John Swinney - Constituency
		During the parliamentary term, John holds surgeries in eleven major towns in the constituency.
		During the parliamentary recess, John takes to the road with a caravan and hold over thirty surgeries in small communities in the rural parts of the constituency.
		Surgeries in the main towns and the mobile surgery tour are notified in the local press and appointments can be made through the constituency office on 01250 876576.
	scottish.parliament.uk /msp/membersPages/john_swinney/constituency.htm (160 words)

	List of burghs in Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burghs were highly autonomous units of local government in Scotland from at least the 12th century until their abolition in 1975 when a new regional structure of local government was introduced across the country.
		Usually based upon a town, they had a municipal corporation and certain rights, such as self-government and representation in the sovereign Parliament of Scotland adjourned in 1707.
		List of UK place names with royal patronage
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_burghs_in_Scotland (1460 words)

	Historical perspective for Montrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the rolls of the parliament, held in Edinburgh in 1357 to arrange the ransom of David II., Montrose occupies the central position among the royal burghs, eight preceding and eight following it, and would therefore appear to have, at that period, attained considerable consequence.
		The present trustees are 5 elected by the county, the sheriff of the county, the provost and senior bailie of Montrose, 2 members elected by the town council, 9 chosen by the municipal electors, and 4 elected by the town council of Brechin.
		It was acquired by this body from the town council in 1837, under act of parliament, by which a payment of £600 a year in perpetuity is to be made to the latter body.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory400.html (6905 words)

	Arthur's Seat: Current Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Politicians and their guests will be offered not just familiar native dishes such as Arbroath smokies and Forfar bridies, but also "traditional West Lothian haggis" and "Port Seton finnan haddie"...The Scottish menus are only due to run at the MSP restaurant for two weeks in September to coincide with Scottish Food Fortnight.
		Parliament bosses say European procurement rules prevent them specifying the locality in which food is produced.
		The UK is a huge market for Ireland, and our business - having grown as much as it can at home is now expanding in London, Glasgow and Dallas, Texas.
	arthursseat.blogs.com /arthurs_seat/current_affairs (8980 words)

	Perth, Scotland Biography,info
		The final part of the M90 included the construction of the Friarton Bridge in 1978 to facilitate travel to Dundee and Aberdeen to the east of the town, finally removing inter-city traffic from the town centre and is the most northerly piece of the UK's motorway system.
		The constituency of Perth sends a single MSP to the Scottish Parliament, and its voters elect additional members through the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
		However, in the late 1990s, the UK government and the Scottish Executive re-examined the definition of a city and produced a list of approved cities, from which Perth was omitted.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Perth,_Scotland (3023 words)

	Historical perspective for Arbroath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The burgh unites with Montrose, Forfar, Brechin, and Bervie in sending a member to parliament, and in 1881 its municipal constituency was 3366, its parliamentary 3383.
		A parliament assembled in the abbey in April 1320, adopted a solemn address to the Pope on behalf of Scottish independence, and is remark able as the earliest parliament in which we find distinct evidence of a formal representation of the burghs.
		Jurisdiction over the criminal affairs of the abbey and over its prison was resigned by the monks to a layman; and in the year 1445 the election to this office led to very disastrous consequences.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory385.html (4081 words)

	Report on Angus by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
		During the passage through Parliament of the 1994 Act, there was cross-Party understanding that we would review the number of councillors and boundaries of electoral wards for each council in time for changes to be implemented for the 1999 local elections.
		Lord Wheatley, provided a basis by which the number of regional councillors and the size of constituency to be represented might be determined by taking into account the fact that population density varies widely in Scotland as a whole and within regions.
		In England and Wales the Redcliffe-Maude Commission, which reported to Parliament in 1969, also drew attention to the management problems of large councils and endorsed the recommendation of The Committee on the Management of Local Government that a maximum number of 75 councillors should be set.
	www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk /reports/angus.htm (2202 words)

	Courier News Story
		A TRIO of young folk cruised into positions in the Scottish Youth Parliament yesterday as the results of the area’s first ‘e-vote’ to the body were revealed.
		At an election announcement in the Reid Hall, Forfar, Angus deputy returning officer and local authority law director Catherine Coull declared Brechin’s Nicola Hampton the landslide winner of the North Tayside seat after she polled an overwhelming 63% of the vote.
		Both seats which the area was allocated for the Angus constituency went to Arbroath candidates, Rachel McCulloch taking a quarter of the vote and Chris Smith just over a fifth.
	www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2005/03/25/newsstory6948412t0.asp (311 words)

	UpMyStreet - The political reps for Forfar West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To ensure democracy both in local and national government, adults aged 18 or over are eligible to vote for representatives from political parties, or independent candidates, to represent the local area.
		uSwitch.com is the UK’s leading impartial comparison and switching service for gas and electricity, home telephone, broadband, digital TV, loans, credit cards and current accounts.
		It is free to use and meets the Energywatch and Ofcom codes of practice.
	www.upmystreet.com /local/my-council-reps/my-reps/l/Forfar+West.html (151 words)

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		Although his UK base is still in Warrington, he is able to spend most of his time in the South of France.
		I was made the UK Customer Relations Manager this year in an attempt to work on i mproving our relationship with the MoD, which has had its ups and down.
		During that period he was Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and also to the Minister of State for Economic Affairs in the late 40s and w as a member of the UK Treasury and Supply delegation to Washington in the mid-50s.
	www.fettes.co.uk /ofa/ofnl03ja.rtf (17559 words)

	Angus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mike Weir has been Member of Parliament for Angus since 2001 when he succeeded Andrew Welsh, who remains the MSP for Angus.
		Alongside public sector workers across the country, he is currently involved in a battle against New Labour¹s plans to attack pension rights for NHS workers.
		This new constituency consists of 12 of the 20 wards from the old Angus constituency plus 10 of the 22 wards from the previous North Tayside constituency.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextge/angus.html (477 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Anne Begg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"I was constituency secretary, very much a backroom person doing the jobs that needed to be done," says Anne, but gradually, through speaking at conferences, she began to gain a public profile.
		At one recent community event, Kincorth Academy Gala, Anne bumped into new DDMC Area Rep Dave McDonald and, as readers of the last issue of Disabled Motorist will know, he gave her a membership application form and a couple of days later received an email from her saying she had joined.
		She hopes her membership will help her as a disabled motorist as well as keeping her informed of the issues affecting the mobility of her disabled constituents.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Begg_Anne_574267592.htm (869 words)

	SNP: NE Scotland Euro By Election 1998
		Allan Macartney was an outstanding member of the European Parliament, who day and daily spoke up for the North East and for Scotland.
		Ian Hudghton is 47 and comes from Forfar.
		He is one of the four Scottish members of the EU Committee of the Regions (link), nominated by the Secretary of State for Scotland and worked as Constituency Agent for Dr Allan Macartney until Dr Macartney's sudden death in August this year.
	www.dusa.dundee.ac.uk /snp/camp.html (201 words)

	MMR and Late-Onset Autism -(Autistic Enterocolitis) - A Briefing Note by David Thrower (complete)
		A year-2000 report for the UK Mental Health Foundation by Professor Martin Knapp for the UK Institute of Psychiatry used the earlier "textbook" rate of autism of 5/10,000 to put the total UK economic cost of autism at £1bn.
		UK DoH also said in correspondence, speaking of all the various studies: "the follow-up time (three weeks) was based on knowledge of the replication rates of the vaccine viral components.....it is recognised that such a study could not establish a causal relationship with extremely rare events.....
		This is important when the ordering of all UK vaccine supplies is now centralised in the Department of Health, when major campaigns such as the 1994 "Operation Catch-Up" anti-measles campaign involve major contracts for over seven million doses of vaccine, and if EU competitive tendering rules are reported to have been side-stepped).
	www.whale.to /vaccine/thrower11.html (17210 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Hardline
		A comprehensive and prescient stud of the Christain right's growing political clout, With God on Their Side is essential reading for anyone concerned about America's direction under the second administration of George W. Bush.
		Since Vladimir Putin was propelled into the Kremlin in 2000, he has defied domestic and foreign expectations, by presiding over a period of strong economic growth, significant restructuring and rising international prestige.
		Yet Putin himself remains a man of mystery and contradictions; he has pursued an increasingly pro-western foreign policy and liberal economic reforms, while continuing a hardline war in Chechnya and introducing tighter controls over parliament, the regions and the media, which are reminiscent of the Soviet era.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Hardline (4810 words)

	Weekly Mailing List Archives - 16th June 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The decision to use e-counting in the 2007 Scottish Parliament and Council elections was taken jointly by Scottish ministers and the Secretary of State for Scotland.
		As far as the Scottish Parliament elections are concerned a single ballot paper is planned, instead of one ballot paper for the constituency and one for the regional vote, as in 1999 and 2003.
		He was one of the magnates Scotiae, who, on 5th February 1284, engaged to maintain the succession of the princess Margaret of Norway to the crown, on the death of her grandfather, being the first of thirteen earls present at the parliament held at Scone on that day.
	www.electricscotland.com /newsletter/060616.htm (6983 words)

	Tayside North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the boundary changes for the 1997 election, the name was changed to North Tayside and the seat gained the Brechin area from Angus East.
		Following the retiral of Alex Salmond after 10 years as National Convenor in September 2000, John Swinney became the leader of the SNP.
		John Swinney is standing down to concentrate on the Scottish parliament.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextwe/m09.html (939 words)

	Midnight footie league 16/6/04 - Russell Brown - on your side - Labour MP for Dumfries and Galloway Constituency
		Dumfries Constituency Labour MP Russell Brown will be on hand at Dunfermline FC’s
		Russell Brown was joined by his Scottish Parliamentary colleague Elaine Murray MSP to kick-off the first match of the hugely successful Midnightleague event when it was launched in
		Promoted by Peter Watt, General Secretary, the Labour Party on behalf of the Labour Party, both at 16 Old Queen Steet, London SW1H 9HP.
	www.russellbrown.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=11007 (494 words)

	minm.info Angus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		- Forfar; Angus -- county town and administrative centre
		Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus (UK Parliament constituency) and Angus (Scottish Parliament constituency).
	minm.info /1801 (285 words)

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