Alexander Dennis (ADL), owned by a Canadian multinational, NFI Group Inc., had already signalled major restructuring and at least partial withdrawal from full bus-building in Scotland. They had £58 million from you since 2020 and in September 2025, a further £4.1 million. In March 2026 won a Scottish Government contract for 123 buses but Chinese manufacturer Yutong won a contract for 166. On March 31, 2026, the owners announced full closure. Would it have been reasonable on the light of other pressures on public spending and taxation for the Scottish Government to have given more public money to a company … Continue reading Daily Record suggests Canadian bus company already given £62 million to stay but which always planned to leave should have had more cash from you

From researchers working outside the Japanese government departments and those higher education institutions dependent on funds from that government or the nuclear industry itself, the above headline and this: As we approach the 15-year mark since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNS) disaster, brought about by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government, the government is still unable to revoke the Nuclear Emergency Declaration. Further, without knowing what will happen in the future, and with an exceedingly hazardous accident site that has absolutely no outlook for a final conclusion, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station is being restarted. … Continue reading As thyroid cancer surges globally a serious warning from Japan for Scotland on Labour’s nuclear energy obsession

Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this: From the BMJ 2 April 2026: A thousand extra training places for resident doctors in England will no longer be available this April, the government has said. The axing of the posts came after the government issued an ultimatum to the doctors’ union the BMA as part of the ongoing dispute over pay and jobs. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, wrote in the Times1 on 30 March that 1000 training places promised by the government for this month would be axed if the union continued to refuse to put the government’s latest offer—which was … Continue reading Unlike in Trumpish Labour’s England, the Responsible SNP Government actively worked with resident doctors to negotiate a deal that averted strikes in Scotland

From CBC in British Columbia on 3 April 2026: B.C. Ferries released details Thursday about a “rare operational incident” involving a vessel sailing in rough weather off the northern B.C. coast, almost a month after the vessel sailed close to a rock shoal – with only about a metre to spare. The Northern Adventure – a vessel that regularly sails between Port Hardy, Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii – hit bad weather, and deliberately changed course to navigate around the difficult conditions. According to B.C. Ferries, that’s when the ship – which was carrying 90 passengers and 55 crew – … Continue reading Canadian ferry misses rocks by only 1m in same place as another ferry ran aground 20 years earlier with the loss of two lives