Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP

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Somerville Demands Answers from Trams Bosses

Shirley-Anne Somerville, MSP for Lothians (SNP), is questioning the timing of media reports revealing plans for further tram lines. Instead, the long-standing critic of the trams project is calling on TIE bosses to start answering serious questions about the construction works that are already underway - but quickly falling behind schedule - with TIE deadlocked in a dispute with the main contractors.

Somerville is Seeing Red this Friday

Shirley-Anne Somerville, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothians (SNP) will be asking Edinburgh to join the British Heart Foundation’s Wear Red Day this Friday (26 February 2010). People are being urged to bake red cakes, paint their face red or anything red related that will highlight the healthy heart campaign.

Somerville Seeks Answers on Sick Kids Foundation Finances

Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP (Lothians) (SNP) has asked for urgent briefings from the Sick Kids Friends Foundation and NHS Lothians following revelations that £500,000 had been spent on the Foundation’s “New Pyjamas Campaign”, with only £60,000 raised for projects at the new children’s hospital being built at Little France.

Somerville Seeks Offshore Energy Boost for Leith

Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP (Lothians)(SNP) has called on Scottish Enterprise to include Leith as a strategic location for windfarm maintenance and manufacture – potentially creating hundreds of jobs for the area.