News just in The ING bank in the Spaak building of the European Parliament has just been robbed. Apparently somebody just walked through security, wandered uinto the bank, threatened the staff (with what we do not know) demnaded they hand over the cash. The cashier did. The thief then calmly picked it up and walked out off the building. The Parliament security then dashed round the PHS building de...
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EnglandExpects on 12th Feb 2009 (via englandexpects.blogspot.com)
THE paved area in front of the Scottish Parliament is to be turned into a building site for the next four months.
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Scotsman on 23rd Nov 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
The unfolding farce over government funding for college building limped along after the country's biggest quango announced cash for a mere 13 projects across England
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FT on 26th Jun 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
THE Scottish Government is to double the cash on offer to local authorities to kick-start council house building.
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Scotsman on 17th Apr 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
A man with a gun robbed a bank inside the European Parliament building in Brussels yesterday (12 February). The brazen act has raised questions about the security risk in the EU institutions.
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EurActiv on 13th Feb 2009 (via euractiv.com)
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a £5 million security extension at the front of the Scottish Parliament building could be ditched because of the cost.
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Scotsman on 1st Jul 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Sharing of bank records with the US started in 2001 in an effort to tackle terrorism. However, the European Parliament has rejected new proposed agreement after heated criticisms that too much private information could be handed over without good reason. The Register reported: The European Parliament has rejected a proposed interim agreement on SWIFT – under
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Feb 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
THE Scottish Parliament building is failing to live up to its green credentials, with energy consumption running at more than double the forecast level.
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Scotsman on 9th Feb 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Welsh Assembly Government staff are to move out of New York's iconic Chrysler building and into British Consulate offices to save cash.
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BBCPolitics on 24th Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The Australian Parliament building in Canberra is a gem of democratic political architecture. Australia’s capital city was facing the need to expand and replace its existing Parliament building. But where to put the new one? The old one had deliberately been placed at the foot of the hill in Canberra, so that politicians would not
I’m just home after having endured one of the most unpleasant experiences I can remember in an EU institution. Really remarkable. I’ve had meetings in the European Parliament on two consecutive days (yesterday and today) with two different British MEPs. When signing in for the visitor’s pass at the ASP building yesterday I said I would return
