http://aberdeengreens.org.uk daily 1 2010-01-20T14:59:35Z http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/greens-publish-union-terrace-gardens-statement Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Green Party has today published its 300-word statement for the Union Terrace Gardens referendum. No publisher dst4046 2012-01-22T20:35:38Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/shire-lib-dems-attack-city-colleagues No publisher dju4363 2012-01-16T15:08:18Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/council-fudge-over-school-closure-process At last week's Aberdeenshire full council meeting (30 June), the Council's ruling Liberal Democrat/Conservative coalition refused to agree that the Council's education committee would be given a say on future school closures decisions, saying that the issue was 'too complicated'. No publisher dst4046 2011-07-11T15:30:46Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/council-to-debate-principle-of-education-committee-involvement-in-school-closure-decisions Aberdeenshire Council will be debating altering the process by which it decides whether to close a school at its meeting this Thursday (30 June). No publisher dst4046 2011-07-11T15:33:50Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/campaigners-call-for-trump-better-behaviour Campaigners supporting the rights of home owners on Donald Trump's Menie estate are calling on the tycoon to give a commitment to better behaviour during his visit to Scotland starting tomorrow. Mr Trump has been in dispute with residents at Menie for more than four years because he wishes to acquire some of his neighbours' homes in order to include the additional land in his planned golf resort. No publisher dst4046 2011-06-20T08:42:02Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/questions-probe-council-position-on-school-closures Two Aberdeenshire councillors are seeking answers from their council over its school closures programme following the announcement of a moratorium on school closures by education secretary Mike Russell MSP. No publisher dst4046 2011-07-11T15:37:23Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/ford-steps-up-pressure-over-school-closure-procedures Democratic Independent councillor Martin Ford, a member of Aberdeenshire Council's Education, Learning and Leisure Committee has stepped up his campaign against the Council's poor decision-making procedures for deciding on school closures. No publisher dst4046 2011-06-15T09:12:05Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/councillor-respondes-to-governent-schools-intervention Aberdeenshire Council needs to stop and reconsider its school closure policy following the moratorium on rural school closures announced by Education Secretary Michael Russell MSP. (Note 1) No publisher dst4046 2011-06-03T07:58:41Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/more-schools-facing-possible-closure-identified Following questions from Democratic Independent councillor Martin Ford, Aberdeenshire Council has provided a list of eight further schools facing possible closure. The revelation follows Aberdeenshire councillors giving their support - on 19 May, at the Council's Education, Learning and Leisure Committee - to a policy on school closures that would see the Council bringing forward twenty-three schools for possible closure. No publisher dst4046 2011-06-03T08:02:28Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/change-of-procedures-for-school-closures-under-consideration-by-aberdeenshire-council It appears likely that Aberdeenshire Council will change its procedures to give a formal say on school closures to its Education, Learning and Leisure Committee. The move comes after pressure on the Council from Democratic Independent councillor Martin Ford. No publisher dst4046 2011-05-29T13:40:24Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/twenty-three-schools-in-the-frame-as-aberdeenshire-school-police-closure-policy-announced Aberdeenshire councillors have given their support to a policy on school closures that would see the Council bringing forward twenty-three schools for possible closure. SNP, Liberal Democrat and Conservative councillors voted to make a £2 million saving through 'primary school rationalisation' on 25 November last year as part of Aberdeenshire Council's response to the cut in its Scottish Government funding and the Council Tax freeze. Since then, Democratic Independent councillor Martin Ford, a member of the Education, Learning and Leisure Committee, has been raising concerns that in the order of twenty schools would have to be closed to achieve savings on that scale. (Note 1) No publisher dst4046 2011-05-29T13:44:50Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/increased-vote-for-green-party-collapse-for-libdems In last Thursday's Scottish Parliament election, the Scottish Green Party was the only opposition party to increase its vote share and not lose any seats. No publisher dst4046 2011-05-09T12:37:29Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/greens-to-defend-homes-and-environment-from-land-grabs No publisher dju4363 2011-04-29T15:44:07Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/greens-launch-manfesto-for-public-services-1 No publisher dju4363 2011-04-29T15:42:30Z News Item http://aberdeengreens.org.uk/news/community-campaigners-star-in-web-first-green-broadcast No publisher dju4363 2011-04-15T19:31:03Z News Item