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It is why Scottish Labour has called for an end to above-inflation water bill hikes, and a restriction on bonuses for those at the top of Scottish Water.

It is not right that rich executives are handed massive payouts such as these when people across Scotland are struggling to afford the basics.

These are eye-watering sums for Scottish Water bosses to be picking up.

„Marina noastră este şi o promisiune, o promisiune că în aceste vremuri, oricât ar fi de tulburi apele în jurul nostru, România îşi va apăra graniţele.

"Our Navy is also a promise, a promise that in these times, no matter how turbulent the waters around us are, Romania will defend its borders."

„Sunt aici în semn de respect faţă de Marina Română. Într-o vreme în care securitatea la graniţa de est nu mai este un fapt împlinit, într-o vreme în care navigaţia sigură prin Marea Neagră este o miză zi de zi şi nu o certitudine.

"I am here in a sign of respect for the Romanian Navy. In a time when security at the eastern border is no longer a given, in a time when safe navigation through the Black Sea is a daily stake and not a certainty."

We need the Scottish Government to step in and commission a probe into whether Scotland’s current defences are fit for purpose.

Scotland’s retained duty firefighter system is creaking and straining.

Scots will be concerned that dozens of taxpayer-funded devices have been lost or stolen in such a short space of time.

Given that all these devices are ultimately paid for by the taxpayer, the Scottish Government must ensure that lost and stolen devices are kept to a minimum.

I trust local Labour groups to have maximum input for the power-sharing arrangements that they enter into. I trust them to do the right thing.

I'm my own man, and nobody's puppet.

If the government continues to recycle previously announced measures and trick people by inflating the numbers, even good policies are bound to lose the trust of the market and the public.

It testifies the high level of trust between our countries,

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We are taking a number of actions to tackle this, including building two new prisons and maximising capacity within the prison estate.

Scotland’s prison population, like many comparable countries, has risen to unsustainable levels and must be addressed.

But I think that we can’t go on just saying, ‘Oh, it’s an emergency, let people out of prison’ – that’s dangerous.

It’ll be at least six years late, and instead of costing £100 million as they said it would, it’s now going to cost at least £1 billion – that’s the scandal.