Posts Tagged: SNP

Road safety? The north is being sold short.

Sleepless nights about the A9 It doesn’t matter how old your children are; as a parent you never really stop worrying about them. I was just dropping off to sleep on Sunday evening when I realised Daughter #2 wasn’t home yet. This wasn’t the gentle ‘she’s on a night out’ level of worry – it… Read more »

Baby boxes for all won’t eradicate childhood poverty

Baby boxes for all won’t eradicate childhood poverty Three years ago I wrote about the Finnish healthcare service, which was celebrating 75 years of ‘baby boxes’ – a cardboard box given to the every expectant mother. The boxes contain clothes, toiletries and nappies – everything a new-born needs to get a good start in life…. Read more »