COSLA victim of stalled charge of Argyll and Bute brigade
Over the first two days of this week, 13th and 14th June 2011, Scotland has witnessed one of its lumbering public sector dinosaurs left shaking its head in a very exposed place after a rout caused by...
View ArticleCOSLA covers leader’s back in split vote at chaotic conference
(Updated below 28th June 2011) At a conference which seemed to devote much of its time to covering the back of what is said to have been an off piste move made by its autocratic President, Pat Watters,...
View ArticleStatement on first meeting of Commission on Delivery of Rural Education
In a sort of ritual baptism, the Scottish Government and the Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), joint sponsors of the new Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education, have together...
View ArticleFirst Minister pays graceful tribute to retiring COSLA ptresident
First Minister, Alex Salmond, closed the 2012 COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) Conference at St Andrews with a tribute to its retiring president, Pat Watters.The First Minister honoured...
View ArticlePat Watters first Chair of Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Pat Watters has been appointed the first Chair of the new single Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the serially retitled Community Safety Minister, Roseanna Cunningham, announced on Friday.Mr Watters...
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