New Year 2012

Delivered free to homes in Causewayhead, Westhaugh, OCUS Cambuskenneth and Top of the Town. FFrom Councillor Graham Reed and the Lib Dem team • (07906 695183) Residents stunned by hospital news You can follow • New Buildings at Stirling Community Hospital put on hold. Graham on twitter • “New facilities must be delivered,” says Cllr Graham Reed Stirling residents have buildings needed to give been left stunned by the Stirling the modern facility news that work on building it was promised. It now the Community Hospital to seems that services on the replace Stirling Royal SRI site will be crammed Infirmary have not started into a few retained as expected. buildings while much of the Local Councillor Graham site will be flattened. Reed told a meeting of “I will be campaigning local residents, “These hard for the people of revelations about the new Stirling to get the new Community Hospital have local hospital they were come as a bolt from the promised. I hope as many Stirling was promised a blue. I have learnt that people as possible will join new community hospital. there are now no funds the campaign by sending What now? available for the next few back the reply slip at the years to construct the new bottom of this page.”

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Name:______Return to: Address:______Councillor Graham Reed, ______C/o Scottish Liberal Democrats FREEPOST Email: ______4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 0PQ Rennie Fights SNP College Cuts Local MSP and leader of the “Forth Valley College could Scottish Lib Dems, Willie lose over 400 places if these Rennie, is leading a campaign cuts are pushed through.” against a cut of £40million in “The Westminster Govern- the colleges budget by the ment recently sent an Scottish Government. additional £67 million to Willie explained, “Colleges like . I’m urging the SNP Stirling’s Forth Valley College to use that money to secure are vital to the future of these places at Forth Valley Scotland’s young people and and other colleges. Surely it’s critical to our economy.” a no-brainer,” added Willie. Can Willie help you? Scottish Lib Dem leader Lib Willie Rennie You can contact Willie by writing to: MSP with your local Lib Dem councillors. Willie Rennie MSP, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP. Or email: [email protected] Or phone: 0131 348 5804 Good News for Pensioners Cllr Graham Reed has welcomed the announcement by the UK coalition government of an increase of over £5 Local councillor Graham per week in the state pension. Reed has expressed his “Thousands of Scottish pensioners will anger at the decision by SNP benefit from this increase,” said Graham. minister Fergus Ewing to accept Scottish Power’s “This is only possible due to the triple lock guarantee that Liberal Democrats pathetic proposals for the negotiated in the coalition agreement.” Beauly-Denny power line. “The problem lies with the ...the biggest cash increases in SNP government’s original decision to exclude underground the Basic State Pension ever... cables as a visual mitigation measure,” said Graham. “ , and now Stirling will be The Telegraph left with a blot on the landscape for generations to come.”

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