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  Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It took 54% of its voters from the previous Glasgow Shettleston constituency and 46% from the Glasgow Provan constituency.
In 1997, the addition of much of the Shettleston constituency increased the notional majority of the previous Provan MP, Jimmy Wray, to 14,165 (40.7 %) over the SNP.
The seat was succeeded by Glasgow East in 2005.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Glasgow (Glaschu in Gaelic; or Glesca in colloquial Scots) is the largest city in Scotland and the third largest in the United Kingdom after London and Birmingham; as well as being the most populous unitary authority area.
Glasgow's West End refers to the bohemian district of cafés, bars, boutique hotels, clubs and restaurants in the hinterland of Kelvingrove Park, the University of Glasgow, BBC Scotland's Headquarters, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Glasgow is home to a student population in excess of 168,000, the largest in Scotland, the majority of them living in the West End of the city, near the University of Glasgow's main campus on Gilmorehill.
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 Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glasgow Shettleston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005.
The area is represented is now covered by Glasgow Central and Glasgow East.
This page was last modified 15:22, 9 May 2006.
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 BBC News | SCOTLAND | Glasgow: Bad for your health?
Glasgow has some of the poorest areas in the UK For the second time in a fortnight, Glasgow's health and prosperity record are under the spotlight - and they make grim reading.
The Bristol findings follows a joint study by researchers at Glasgow and Heriot Watt universities which showed that Glasgow was lagging dangerously behind Edinburgh in terms of economic prosperity and general well-being.
Professor Ivan Turok of Glasgow University was one of the authors of last week's report which contrasted life in the city with that of the more affluent Edinburgh.
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 Glasgow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Glasgow (Glaschu in Gaelic; Glesca or Glasgae in colloquial Scots) is Scotland's largest city and unitary authority area, situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands.
Glasgow is currently bidding for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, to be based around a number of exising and new-built sporting venues across the city, including; a revamped Hampden Park with a Commonwealth Games village planned for the East End.
Glasgow has the largest urban rail network in the UK outside of London, with rail services travelling to a large part of the West of Scotland.
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 Glasgow
Greater Glasgow conurbation, a 15 mile (24 km) radius from the city centre, known as the City of Glasgow and the Greater Metropolitan area.
Glasgow is home to a student population in excess of 168,000, second only to London in the UK, the majority of them living in the west-end of the city, near the
Glasgow is the largest economy in Scotland and is at the hub of the metropolitan area of West Central Scotland which has a total population of over 2.6 million.
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 Glasgow - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Compared to Inner London (22,438 people per sq mile), Glasgow has less than half the current population density of the English capital (8,528), however in 1931, the density was 16,011 highlighting the 'clearances' of the inner city to the suburbs and new towns Glasgow: Population and Density 1891-2001 www.demographia.com.
Image:Wfm kelvingrove museum back.jpg Glasgow's West End refers to the bohemian district of cafés, bars, boutique hotels, clubs and restaurants in the hinterland of Kelvingrove Park, the University of Glasgow, BBC Scotland's Headquarters, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Image:Wfm glasgow school of art.jpg Many of the city's most impressive buildings were built with red or blond sandstone, but during the industrial era those colours disappeared under a pervasive fl layer of soot and pollutants from the furnaces.
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 Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The motto was more recently commemorated in a song called "Mother Glasgow" popularised by Hue and Cry, a musical group from the nearby town of Coatbridge.
Compared to Inner London (22,438 people per sq mile), Glasgow has less than half the current population density of the English capital (8,528), however in 1931, the density was 16,011 highlighting the 'clearances' of the inner city to the suburbs and new towns
Glasgow University is amongst the largest and most prestigious educational institutions in the United Kingdom.
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 New laws aim to ban shops from selling knives - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Over the past four years the number of incidents involving knives has risen by 350%, and in Glasgow alone 7500 people were victims of knife crime last year.
The Evening Times was praised in the Scottish Parliament for campaigning for a crackdown on knife attacks and violence on the streets.
Glasgow's growing problem was highlighted in the Scottish Parliament by Shettleston MSP Frank McAveety after four men were killed in his constituency in a weekend of violence last month.
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 Aspect 1999: Frank McAveety, Scottish Labour Party candidate, Glasgow Shettleston, 1999
That's why Scottish Labour has promised to deliver within its first term at least four new computers to each class in each primary school in Glasgow and that is why we have promised each teacher will also have their own computer.
Glasgow Labour Council is also delivering the largest ever increase in secondary school investment this City has seen with over £136 million to be spent in the next three years.
He believes in arguing Glasgow's corner and wants to work with a Scottish Labour Administration in Scotland's first Parliament to ensure that Glasgow shares in the prosperity of a developing Scotland.
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 MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001 - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency.
Glasgow Kelvin) - Expelled from Labour October 23
Terry Davis (Birmingham Hodge Hill) - announced on June 22 his intention to leave Parliament shortly to take up the post of secretary general of the Council of Europe.
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 Aspect 1999: Jim Byrne, Scottish National Party candidate, Glasgow Shettleston, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In making Scotland's Parliament work the foundations will be laid to ensure that our people have the confidence and the ability to make the real objective possible, Independence.
This Parliament can affect the issues of Health, Education and Housing, the issues that are of most concern to the people of Shettleston.
Jim is currently Glasgow SNP's Organiser also, campaigning throughout the City, and being prominent in the Garrowhill By election which the SNP won and the Possil By election which showed a 33% swing to the SNP.
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 Launch a worldwide general strike at the time of the G8 summit (July 2005)!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I am therefore proposing that demonstrations are also arranged in cities and towns across Scotland, the UK and even elsewhere in the world - and that workers go on strike and students leave their schools, colleges and universities in order to attend.
If it is only a symbolic strike on the 6 th of July that would be great, but if this call for a worldwide general strike gets taken up in a big way then the whole capitalist system could be under threat.
It is also vital that enough MPs are elected per constituency to allow smaller parties to get representation - the Liberal "Democrats" are in favour of the same system but want small constituencies to benefit themselves at the expense of socialists.
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 I will become a socialist MP!
I will spend quite a lot of time during the general election campaign in Scotland (particularly Glasgow) since it is essential that the SSP gets some representation at Westminster too.
Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party (http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org), supporter of the International Socialist Movement platform of the SSP (http://www.redflag.org.uk) and initiator of the Revolutionary Platform of the SSP (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-the-ssp).
Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK (http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campaign-for-democracy-in-the-uk) and Campaign for Sanity in the NHS (http://www.health-service-sanity.org).
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 My plot to oust Alun Michael MP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
More importantly, I went to Glsagow to help the SSP gain over 15% of the vote (throughout Glasgow) at the Scottish parliamentary election campaign, enabling Rosie Kane to join Tommy Sheridan as an MSP (member of the Scottish parliament); the SSP got six seat across Scotland.
The primary purpose of building DSAs was to have a demonstration outside the Welsh parliament, preferably on New Years Day, calling for more powers for the Walsh Assembly coupled with real democratic rights in the UK as a whole.
Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK (http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campaign-for-democracy-in-the-uk).
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 Galloway switches sides to reveal Rumsfeld sold arms and maps to
When Galloway defeated King, it was reported in the mass media as a big shock, but bearing in mind the above factors, it clearly was not — and since only 15,801 people voted for him (and of course, a fair number of Respect voters weren’t Muslims), it was a hardly a ringing endorsement of him.
A (fairly reliable) former SWP member told me that Galloway refused to join the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs because he thought they were too left wing, and that he stayed in five-star hotels around the world at the charity War on Want’s expense.
Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party (http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org), supporter of the International Socialist Movement platform of the SSP (http://www.redflag.org.uk) and initiator of the Revolutionary Platform of the SSP (http://www.revolutionaryplatformofthessp.org, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-the-ssp).
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 UK Gun Control - now Knife Control. - Seawolf.CC
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