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A COMMUNITY initiative to help promote businesses, attractions and events in Musselburgh has taken a major step forward. A new website and Facebook page to highlight the enterprise, which is operating under the banner of ‘Love Musselburgh’, have now gone live. Launched by four local businesswomen – Sharon Brown, of Blueberry Gifts; Mhairri Duxburry, of Mint Fig; Terri Buzzeo, of Maison Macaron Home; and Jeanette Hamill, Hamill Decorating Services – alongside Melanie Roccio of the environment group Love Musselburgh CIC, are working together for “the good of the town”. Funding of more than £25,000 has been received for the initiative, which got off the ground after £14,300 was received from Musselburgh Area Partnership, £6,875 from East Lothian Council’s Covid-19 economic recovery support fund for towns and villages, and £5,000 from Scotland Loves Local – a national initiative designed to encourage people to think local and support their high streets safe
JOHN Swinney has said the SNP will take ambitious action to transform Scotland’s rural economy if re-elected – after the Tories’ hard Brexit dealt it a devastating blow. The Deputy First Minister’s comments came after a visit to Jamesfield Garden Centre in Perth with local candidate Jim Fairlie yesterday. Jim Fairlie, former hill-farmer and the SNP’s candidate for Perthshire South and Kinross-Shire, has said that keeping people on the land, spending locally and producing more of our own food – sustainably and with nature – will be a top priority for the party in the next parliamentary term and it will take the following action to support this: