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Sunday Herald › April 24, 2011
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WERE elections to be decided on the basis of the view from the parties' campaign HQ, Labour would surely be a shoo-in in Stirling. As they stuff envelopes and fortify themselves with donuts, party activists look out from the local rowing club across the muddy banks of the Forth to the gorgeous tree-cloaked slopes of Abbey Craig on top of which rises the imposing Wallace Monument.
However, John Hendry, who hopes to prise the seat from Bruce Crawford, most recently Minister for Parliamentary Business in the outgoing SNP administration, says that first impressions can be deceptive. The plain on the opposite bank to the club house, he notes, is susceptible to flooding and there are probably more supermarket trolleys in the river than there are fish.See the full content of this document
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Moreover, in the distance there is a pylon, scratching its way skyward. If, as seems likely, the Beauly-to-Denny power line goes ahead, how many more unwelcome blights on the landscape will there be?
The power line is one of the issues that exercises people...See the full content of this document
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