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on 10 Jun 2021 Community benefit a key theme from Shaping Our Electricity Future consultation EirGrid, operator of the national electricity grid, will next week close its nationwide consultation on Shaping Our Electricity Future. SPONSORED The Shaping Our Electricity Future initiative details approaches to developing the electricity grid in order to meet ambitious 2030 renewable energy targets The Shaping Our Electricity Future initiative details approaches to developing the electricity gri...

Be sure to have your say - Credit: DCC Fourteen thousand randomly selected Devon households are being invited to enter a ‘civic lottery’ to determine who represents the county at this summer’s Devon Climate Assembly.  Over the next week invitations will drop through letterboxes giving households the chance to help shape and safeguard Devon’s future.  It follows the recent public consultation of the Interim Devon Carbon Plan, the county’s climate roadmap which outlines what every res...

Democracy? - Calls for reform as Scotlands councils found to some of the least local in Europe Democracy? - Calls for reform as Scotlands councils found to some of the least local in Europe CAMPAIGNERS have called for a shake-up as research found that Scotland’s councils are some of the least “local” in Europe. The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) found that while England has an average of 2,814 people per councillor, Norway 572 and Denmark 2,216, the average councillor in Scotland has ...

SNP pledges to consider legalising assisted suicide if re-elected 29 Apr 2021 The Scottish National Party has said that it will consider legalising assisted suicide if they are re-elected. In their 2021 manifesto, the party detailed its plan to set up Citizens’ Assemblies to “find consensus on issues where people have sharply divided opinions” – including assisted suicide. The Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats are already committed to legalising the practice. ‘Utterly ina...

Assisted dying campaigners ‘optimistic’ for change after Holyrood election © Shutterstock Feed Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Candidates standing for the Scottish Parliament have been sent thousands of messages in just two weeks in a campaign to legalise assisted dying, we can reveal. More than 2,000 people sent nearly 4,...

Four by-elections will be held in Lewisham next month Candidates hoping to be a councillor in Bellingham have set out what they would do if elected. A by-election will be held on Thursday, May 6, for the Bellingham ward following the death of  Labour Councillor Sue Hordijenko this year.  Cllr Hordijenko, who was elected in 2016 after a by-election, was described by her friends and colleagues as “warm”, “friendly” and a “true advocate for her constituents”.   Lew...

University of Sussex A major new report led by Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations in the School of Global Studies, has called on policy makers to target the UK’s polluter elite to trigger a shift to more sustainable behaviour, and provide affordable, available low-carbon alternatives to poorer households. The report, by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission, which scientifically assesses global sustainability issues, has found that whilst efforts to address the climate crisi...

Meet the candidates for Londons mayoral elections 2021. - Credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images A record-breaking 20 candidates are in the running to be London’s next mayor.  Everyone registered to vote on May 6 will have a chance to have their say on who will next lead the capital.  Following the candidate list announcement on April 1, this newspaper contacted all the contenders to ask them one simple question.  What will you do to improve the lives of people living in east London? Se...

The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship  by Derek Scally, 2021, 335 pages Derek Scally has been the Berlin correspondent of The Irish Times for the last 20 years. Somewhat surprisingly, his first book is not about his experiences in Germany, but about the recent dramatic changes at home. The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship examines the fallout from the abuse scandals, but also the his...

SNP plans annual Citizens’ Assemblies if re-elected April 4, 2021, 1:38 pm The SNP depute leader said the first Citizens’ Assembly was proof politics can be done differently in Scotland (Jane Barlow/PA) The SNP will hold annual Citizens’ Assemblies if it is re-elected after May’s election, the party’s depute leader has said. One such group has already completed its work, with the original assembly made up of around 100 people designed to broadly represent Scotland at large. Future as...