Nicola Sturgeon MSP
Written 2 posts
First Minister of Scotland
FM announces support for oil and gas industry
4th February 2016
Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland plays a crucial part in our economy and remains central to driving future growth and prosperity in Scotland. Clearly, the oil and gas industry is central to Aberdeen’s economy and will continue to be for decades to come, but there is also enormous potential elsewhere in the region….
Scottish Steel can still have a future
21st October 2015
For decades, there wasn’t a family in Scotland’s industrial heartlands who didn’t know a steel worker. The manufacture and processing of steel was part of the backbone of our economy. The 1980s and 1990s, of course, changed that. Lanarkshire was badly hit, as Gartcosh closed in 1986 then Ravenscraig in 1992. Today we all stand…