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	Sutherland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The county had the county of Caithness to the north and east, and the county of Ross and Cromarty to the south.
		The constituency consisted of the county, minus the parliamentary burgh of Dornoch.
		The Sutherland constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom represented the county from 1708 to 1918.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sutherland (616 words)

	Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).
		Ross, Skye and Lochaber covers a central portion of the council area, with Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to its south and east and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency to its north.
		Ross, Skye and Lochaber includes the Black Isle on the east coast of Scotland and, in the west, the Hebidean island of Skye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ross,_Skye_and_Lochaber (302 words)

	Cromarty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Royal Burgh of '''Cromarty''' (''Cromba'' in Gaelic) is a burgh in the former county of Cromartyshire, Highland, Scotland, comprising a seaport in the former administrative county of Ross and Cromarty.
		The name ''Cromarty'' variously derives from the Gaelic ''crow'' (crooked), and from ''bati'' (bay), or from ''ard'' (height), meaning either the "crooked bay", or the "bend between the heights" (referring to the high rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth), and gave the title to the earldom of Cromarty.
		From 1832 to 1918 Cromarty was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Cromarty (356 words)

	Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The constituency was formed by merging together areas which were formerly within the Ross and Cromarty constituency and the Inverness-shire constituency.
		The constituency area is that of the Outer Hebrides, known also as Na h-Eileanan Siar, and the constituency has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom, one-fifth of the size of the largest, the Isle of Wight, with the latter also being an island constituency.
		When created the area of the constituency was divided between two local government areas, the counties of Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Isles_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (444 words)

	Caithness - Free net encyclopedia
		The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1708 to 1918).
		The Caithness constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (1708 to 1801) and the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801 to 1918) represented essentially the county from 1708 to 1918.
		Between 1708 and 1832 the Caithness constituency was one of the Buteshire and Caithness alternating constituencies: one constituency elected a Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament and then the other elected an MP to the next.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Caithness (1655 words)

	Historical perspective for Cromarty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was rased to the ground in 1772, and its place is occupied by Cromarty House; hard by, a column, 40 feet high, is surmounted by Handyside Ritchie's life-size statue (1859) of Cromarty's most celebrated son, the stonemason geologist and author, Hugh Miller (1802-56).
		The parish, forming the north-eastern extremity of the Black Isle peninsula, is bounded N by Cromarty Firth, SE by the Moray Firth and Rosemarkie, SW by Rosemarkie, and W by Resolis.
		Cromarty is in the presbytery of Chanonry and synod of Ross; the living is worth £399.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory573.html (1089 words)

	Caithness and Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Caithness and Sutherland was a constituency the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997.
		The constituency was created by merging together the constituencies of Caithness and Sutherland and the Dornoch and Wick components of the Wick Burghs constituency.
		In 1997 the constituency was superseded by the creation of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, which merged together Caithness and Sutherland and an Easter Ross area of Ross, Cromarty and Skye.
	www.abitabouteverything.com /files/c/ca/caithness_and_sutherland__uk_parliament_constituency_.html (431 words)

	Ross, Skye & Inverness West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1983 the Ross & Cromarty seat was increased in size by the addition of 11,500 voters from the isle of Skye, Glen Urquhart, Aird, Cannich and Beauly areas of Inverness-shire.
		Ross & Cromarty has been held by politicians with a plethora of different labels - Liberal, Independent Liberal, National Liberal, Social Democrat, Liberal & Social Democrat, Liberal Democrat, National Labour, and Conservative.
		Charles Kennedy was not interested in standing for the Scottish Parliament, having his sights set firmly on becoming the next leader of the UK Liberal Democrats and a seat on Tony Blair's cabinet after the next general election.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextwe/h06.html (1409 words)

	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)
		Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).
		The constituency was created in 1997 by merging Caithness and Sutherland with an area from Ross, Cromarty and Skye.
		The constituency is one of three covering the Highland council area, the other two being the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency and the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency, created in 2005.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Caithness,_Sutherland_and_Easter_Ross_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (311 words)

	math lessons - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
		Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and in the Scottish Parliament.
		The constituency consists of the traditional counties of Caithness and Sutherland and the Easter Ross area of Ross and Cromarty.
		In the Scottish Parliament the constituency is represented by Liberal Democrat MSP Jamie Stone.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Caithness,_Sutherland_and_Easter_Ross (193 words)

	SCC Final Document
		Within the UK framework of benefits and allowances, Scotland's parliament will co-operate with the Scottish offices of the Department of Social Security and with other agencies in the field to ensure that benefits are administered in a way sensitive to Scotland's needs.
		That means a Parliament in which men and women are fairly represented in numbers broadly proportionate to their shares of the population, and which actively encourages the participation and involvement of all groups, including ethnic minority groups, in its consultative processes.
		This objective will be attained by basing the financial settlement for the parliament upon a continuation of the principle of equalisation of expenditure within the UK; upon autonomy for the parliament in respect of its expenditure; and upon the limited power of the parliament to vary the basic rate of income tax.
	www.almac.co.uk /business_park/scc/scc-rep.htm (10387 words)

	Inverness
		On September 7, 1921 the only UK Cabinet meeting to be held outside London took place in the Town House, when David Lloyd George, on holiday in Gairloch called an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ireland.
		It was a constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
		The rest of the new Inverness constituency consisted of the mainland and Inner Hebridean areas of the former Inverness-shire constituency.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Inverness (1492 words)

	Kennedy, Charles Peter - MSN Encarta
		In 1983, Kennedy returned to Scotland where he won the seat of Ross, Cromarty, and Skye for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) at the general election of that year.
		They secured 52 seats in the new parliament, an increase of 6 on the 1997 election result.
		Kennedy was re-elected to the House of Commons to represent a new constituency, Ross, Skye, and Lochaber, created as a result of constituency boundary changes in Scotland.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_122600525/Kennedy_Charles_Peter.html (640 words)

	The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - Chapter 17
		January 27.—There is an interesting article, entitled "Scenes on the Coasts of Sutherland and Ross." The writer gives an account of the departure of a party of emigrants from Helmsdale at the close of a successful fishing season.
		Mr Davidson was Chairman of the meeting, and Mr Ross conceived that he interrupted him improperly in the course of the discussion.
		In moving for a committee of inquiry, Mr Baillie stated that owing to the depression of the kelp trade by the reduction of the duties on salt, sulphur, and barilla, many of the Highland estates were ruined, and the tenants and occupiers deprived of the means of living.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/highlands/2no17.htm (8234 words)

	Orkney Islands - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1468 Orkney and Shetland were pledged by Christian I of Denmark and Norway for the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland, and as the money was never paid, their connection with the crown of Scotland has been perpetual.
		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.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Orkney (2813 words)

	Reform Act 1832 - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cromartyshire and Nairnshire were each united with a different neighbouring county, to form Ross and Cromarty, and Elginshire and Nairnshire.
		The remaining burghs combined in districts to elect 18 MPs, much as before; but now individual votes were added up among burghs across the constituency — in the past the MP had been elected at a meeting of representatives from each burgh.
		By 1708 the Parliament of England, representing both England and Wales, had been merged into the Parliament of Great Britain, representing England, Wales and Scotland.
	greatreformactof1832.quickseek.com (1558 words)

	NetMedia - News for August 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The event at Cromarty, in the Black Isle, is among several marking cultural links that have been established between Ross and Cromarty and Roscommon, in Ireland, since an approach from the organisers of a traditional music festival there in January, 1997.
		THE SCOTTISH Parliament in Edinburgh is being urged by the two main opposition parties, cottish National and Conservative, to fight the decision to axe Oban, West Highlands, and Pentland, Orkney, coastguard stations.
		The closure by KLM uk of four return flights each weekday to Stansted and three to Stavanger echoed the ending of flights by the Dutch airline between Inverness Airport, Dalcross, London and Amsterdam in February, 1998, and claims by easyJet that landing fees at that airport were also too high.
	highland.netmedia.co.uk /199908stories.html (14685 words)

	Constituencies in the unreformed House
		The right to vote in Parliamentary elections for county constituencies was uniform throughout the country, granting a vote to all those who owned the freehold of land to an annual rent of 40 shillings (‘Forty-shilling Freeholders’).
		Before 1832, Members of Parliament were referred to by specific titles reflecting their constituency.
		County town of Nottinghamshire, the scene of Parliaments from 1194 to 1397.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /prereform.html (2797 words)

	The Dingwall Website - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ones in Ross and Cromarty had been passed on by the Royal Burghs.
		He began by commenting that there had been 6 fatal road accidents in Ross and Cromarty so far this year, which was causing concern that drivers were ignoring normal safe driving.
		Seaforth, Dingwall and Seaforth and Mid Ross and a vote was taken.
	www.dingwall.org.uk /archive---12th-sept.-2005-g.asp?pageID=39 (1908 words)

	Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		However, overriding considerations of sheer geographical size, a disparate population and of convenience for the MPs concerned as well as tradition and identity have tended to override the arguments about numerical imbalance.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency) contains research on
		Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency), Local government areas, Politics, Member of Parliament, Election results, See also and Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Na_h-Eileanan_an_Iar_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (426 words)

	Fergus Ewing MSP - Constituency Facts and Figures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It stretches from the islands of Eigg, Rum and Canna on the west coast to the seaside town of Nairn on the east coast.
		The constituency has an age profile which is fairly similar to that of Highland and Scotland.
		Labour's 2,339 majority is the smallest of Labour's 56 Scottish seats and is a prime target for the SNP at the next Westminster elections after Fergus Ewing captured the seat in the Scottish Parliament elections of May 1999.
	saltire.net /fergusewing/constituency.htm (902 words)

	The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - No. XVIII
		April 3.—Copies were circulated of the bill brought into Parliament "for erecting toll-gates and levying tolls on certain roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland." The "Courier" explains why such a measure was necessary.
		In the county of Ross there was a similar deficiency of £673 7s 1d; in Sutherland of £38 8s 11d; in Caithness of £119; and in Argyll of £52 16s 9d.
		In 1802 he was chosen member of Parliament for his native county, which he continued to represent till he was succeeded by his son, the present member.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/highlands/no18.htm (5052 words)

	Politics UK :: View topic - Questions to Environment and Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		So far as I am aware, it is not our intention to develop housing in the South East, however I cannot speak for private housing developers plans and cannot comment or influence the decision of regional planning authorities should applications to build in the South East be received from private housing developers.
		However my constituants do see the need for there to be more renewable energy schemes in place.
		In your constituency of North Dorset it is understandable that there would be objections to the use of wind turbines.
	chris.ripside.com /polukmain/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3072&sid=82952537878daca5fc910188e155db5b (2837 words)

	Scotland: The 2005 General Election and the Scottish Socialist Party
		An even larger haemorrhaging in the Labour vote, which fell by 4.5% in Scotland and 5.5% across the UK as a whole, was avoided by the constant refrain from New Labour that anything other than a Labour vote would let the Tories back in.
		Undoubtedly, the fact that this election was being fought out by three main parties at a UK level, with the Lib Dems posing as a “we’re not them” alternative to the Tories and New Labour helped their cause.
		It is of course correct to build support among the Muslim community many of who have been to the fore in the anti-war movement and many of who suffer dire poverty combined with racism and discrimination, but it would be wrong to appeal, as Respect have consciously done, to only one-section of the community.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/06/13scotland.html (3594 words)

	Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP, Lib Dem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Charles Kennedy is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and the MP for Ross, Skye and Inverness West in the Scottish Highlands.
		During his term in parliament he has acted as a spokesperson on issues ranging from the welfare state to Europe, agriculture and rural affairs.
		Charles Kennedy was elected UK Party President, the equivalent of party chairman, in 1990, and served in that post until 1994.
	www.myinverness.net /inverness/celebs&gossip-charleskennedy.htm (591 words)

	Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency) - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The constituency area is that of the Outer Hebrides, known also as Na h-Eileanan Siar, and the constituency has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom, one-fifth of the size of the largest, the Isle of Wight, despite the latter also being an island constituency.
		However, considerations of tradition, identity, sheer geographical size, a disparate population and of convenience for the MPs concerned, have tended to override the arguments about numerical imbalance.
		Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency)
	naheileanananiar.quickseek.com (309 words)

	Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Prescott is back in parliament, winning Hull East with a reduced majority of 11,747.
		Ms Hewitt says Lord Goldmith said a second resolution from the UN would have been helpful, it was not essential, and as a lawyer she was "absolutely satisfied" by the advice.
		They do admit, however, that their pledge not to revalue the council tax in the next parliament "is a new policy proposal".
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /election2005/archives/news (11220 words)

	politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Can Cameron make the polls move?
		CCO relies on the local constituencies providing a list of those of their members who are eligible to vote, so if you aren’t qualified, but are on good terms with your local Chairman or agent, see if they’ll be prepared to put you on the list.
		The Executive of each Constituency Association meets in what is no doubt these days no longer a smoke filled room, makes its choice on the basis of accumulated personal resentments, and casts the number of votes based on its alleged membership (the size of which is none of CCO’s business).
		Robert Adam Ross Maclennan: first elected as Labour, then he became Social Democrat (in 1981); elected for SDP in 1983 and 1987 and for Libdems in 1992 and 1997.
	politicalbetting.com /index.php/archives/2005/10/21/email_form.php?p=1172 (8180 words)

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