Archive for February, 2010

Watchdog urges urgent review of Scottish Water directors’ bonuses

Waterwatch Scotland (WWS), the independent consumer watchdog for Scotland’s water industry, is calling for an urgent review of the way bonuses are paid to senior Scottish Water executives.

To read full news release, please click here.


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2009 best financial year yet for leading CRO, ClinTec International

ClinTec International, a leading full service multinational contract research organisation (CRO), has announced that it has achieved organic growth with a 45 per cent increase in global sales revenues over the last twelve months; expanded its client base signing new contracts with 11 of the world’s top 25 pharmaceutical firms.

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The first manifesto of the 2011 Scottish Parliament Election…

On Tuesday 2nd February, ‘Scotland’s Sporting Chance: A manifesto for sport in Scotland’ was launched by former Scotland rugby international Scott Hastings.  The purpose of this manifesto is to raise awareness of the challenges facing Scottish sport from grassroots to elite performance. I recently joined Morhamburn from the Scottish Sports Association and was one of …


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  • 3/02/10 at 5.12pm
  • By Mark

ClinTec International: leading global contract research organisation

MENA Health World Magazine interviews Dr Rabinder Buttar, founder, President and CEO of ClinTec International, one of Britain’s leading CROs.

To read the full article, prepared by Morhamburn for MENA Health World, please click here.


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  • 3/02/10 at 11.57am
  • By Andrew

A matter of life & death

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett’s Richard Dimbleby lecture that was broadcast on BBC 1 last night, there is increasingly a feeling that momentum is building behind the idea of assisted dying, with it beginning to feel like an idea whose time has come.


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  • 2/02/10 at 6.09pm
  • By Keith

Still doing it their way…Northern Ireland, Day 7

So the 48-hour deadline for a deal to be reached has passed, but the UK and Irish governments have not laid down their proposals as threatened. Once again Northern Irish politics has shown it is a unique, some may say peculiar entity. Most people will ask – why haven’t the UK and Irish governments told …


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  • 2/02/10 at 12.17pm
  • By Niamh

Morhamburn’s Forward Look

Morhamburn’s authoritative round-up of all Holyrood activity for the week ahead.

For full report (PDF) download here – Morhamburn’s Foward Look (Feb 1)


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  • 1/02/10 at 11.09am
  • By Andrew