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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 grid in order to meet ambitious 2030 renewable energy targets. EirGrid, along with Minister for the En...

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 resident, business and organisation will have to do to reduce carbon emissions.  The Interim Carbon Pl...

'Democracy'? - Calls for reform as Scotland's councils found to some of the 'least local' in Europe 'Democracy'? - Calls for reform as Scotland's 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 to look after 4,155 constituents. The ERS is calling for an overhaul of local democracy ...

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 inappropriate’ Dr Gordon Macdonald, CEO of the Care Not Killing coalition, said it was “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 4,500 appeals to members of all political parties ahead of the May 6 election. It follows a call from ...