Stewart stevenson msp biography of michael jackson
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Scots enjoy lease of Life
A Scottish version of the Jewish Way of Life online teaching resource was officially launched by MSP Stewart Stevenson and Lord Winston at Glasgow's Giffnock Synagogue on Tuesday.
Mr Stevenson, who represents Banff and Buchan for the SNP, stepped in at last minute for indisposed Scottish Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning Michael Russell.
The adaptation was a collaboration between SCoJeC, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, and Learning and Teaching Scotland. It has been funded by the Pears Foundation.
SCoJeC director Ephraim Borowski said the resource was already being widely used in Scottish schools.
"Since we uploaded it onto our website and LTS linked to it from their site, we've had approximately 1,000 hits a month," he said. "Putting it online makes it accessible to all and the feedback has been wonderful."
Children from the Calderwood Lodge Jewish Primary were among school groups at the launch.
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Holyrood 2021 election: Which MSPs are standing down?
Scots will go to the polls to elect MSPs to Holyrood on 6 May. However a total of 34 members decided not to run again, including several former party leaders and government ministers. Who are they?
SNP
The SNP is in government at Holyrood. They ended the term with 61 of the parliament's 129 MSPs.
Jeane Freeman
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has confirmed she will not seek re-election in 2021. The Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley MSP said she would be in her 70s by the end of the next term and had "more she wanted to do".
Since being elected in 2016, she has held two ministerial offices - currently she is the cabinet secretary for health, during which time she has overseen the Scottish government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to this she served as social security minister and was charged with setting up Scotland's first social securi
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Scottish National Party
Scottish political party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba[ˈpʰaːrˠtʰiˈn̪ˠaːʃən̪ˠt̪ənəˈhal̪ˠapə]) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party. The party holds 62 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and holds 9 out of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It has 453 local councillors of the 1,227 available. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom and for Scotland's membership in the europeisk Union,[13][27][28] with a platform based on progressive social policies and civic nationalism.[16][17] Founded in 1934 with the amalgamation of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party, the party has had continuous parliamentary representation in Westminster since Winnie Ewing won the 1967 Hamilton by-election.[29]
With the establishment of the devolved Scottish Parliame