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The SNP's Depute leader Nicola Sturgeon MSP has condemned Labour's Wendy Alexander for suggesting the Iraq War is not a "real issue" for the people of Scotland. Her comments follow a condemnation of Des Browne over the Iraq war by army regiment campaigners.
Ms Sturgeon said:
"It's outrageous that Wendy Alexander considers the Iraq War not to be a real issue. Labour continue to peddle this preposterous notion that the conflict isn't important to the people of Scotland.
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The Scottish Environment Minister has criticised moves by the Ministry of Defence to carry out depleted uranium weapons testing in south west Scotland.
Mike Russell said the failure to take local opinion into account was "disappointing".
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The Scottish Government has set up an expert group to investigate how best to get rid of nuclear weapons.
The group, to be chaired by Bruce Crawford MSP, Minister for Parliamentary Business, is seen by many as a crucial step towards making Scotland a nuclear-free nation.
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Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, is dismayed at the latest news coming out of Iraq regarding the Oil Law.
Dr Wilson was referring specifically to the charge by an anonymous Iraqi MP, reported in Akhbar Alkhaleej newspaper, that Iraqi MPs are being offered $5 million each to back the controversial Oil Law.
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SNP MSP Bill Kidd has welcomed the positive discussions that took place at a joint STUC and SCND conference in Glasgow.
The STUC and SCND have shown that if the UK Government was not spending billions of pounds on a new generation of nuclear weapons we could have significant investment in other parts of our economy |
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MSPs have voted by 63 to 58 to reject nuclear power, exactly a week after Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, committed the UK Government to a new generation of such stations.
The Holyrood vote was hailed by SNP Ministers as signalling a clean, bright future for Scottish energy.
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