Party conferences seem to be memorable as often for the things that happened away from the conference hall as in it. And, for some reason, the stories usually revolve around hotels.
Despite the recession, pharma-related businesses in Scotland are ploughing over a billion pounds into Scotland’s economy and safeguarding over 11,000 jobs.
So the Sun has rained on Gordon’s seaside break from Downing Street. It will now be supporting the Conservatives.
Tony Blair worked hard to woo the Sun in the run up to 1997. Obviously Rupert doesn’t think the new tenant at Number 10 has done quite enough to retain that allegiance. But Tony Blair also delivered …
When the SNP Government took office in 2007, the three pillars of its Economic Strategy could safely be summed up as (in no particular order) Financial Services, Life Sciences and Renewable Technology.
Whether it’s because the first of these legs has become a bit shoogley, it has been clear that government has chosen to add some more sectors to the mix for Scotland’s economic future…
A very bright young reporter from the Today Programme was sent to join us at Radio Leeds. She, like I, wasn’t long out of training though hers was very much the BBC Fast Track and mine was not.
Her mission was to find a series of stories from West Yorkshire that reflected what was going on …