Archive News>2003
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16 January 2003
This Thursday evening, an Edinburgh audience will hear the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa describe how a terrible epidemic is besieging a continent. Read more... |
31 January 2003
Gavin Strang MP told a meeting of East Edinburgh and Musselburgh Constituency Labour party in Portobello last night (Thursday) that it would be wrong to launch military action in Iraq before United Nations weapons inspectors had had time to do their work. Read more... |
5 February 2003
Gavin Strang MP has written to Richard Bowker, Chair of the Strategic Rail Authority, putting the case for a Parkway station at Musselburgh. Read more... |
11 March 2003 - Article by Gavin Strang for The Speaker
As I write the eyes of the world are on United Nations in New York. In a fast moving situation, we watch to see whether the international community can resolve the current crisis over Iraq. Read more... |
Iraq
18 March 2003 - Comment by Gavin Strang for the Musselburgh News
Nobody doubts that the Iraqi regime is guilty of atrocities. We have been reminded of the war between Iraq and Iran and the use of chemical weapons supplied by companies based in the West. Nor do we forget the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. Read more... |
24 March 2003 - Comment by Gavin Strang for The Speaker
In a comment Gavin Strang said this week: ‘I deeply regret that military action has been started in Iraq at this time. I admire and support our armed forces now engaged in Iraq, and hope that their operations will be completed with minimal casualties on both sides.’ Read more... |
28 November 2003 - an article by Gavin Strang MP in The Herald
HIV in Scotland - that was back in the 1980s wasn't it? "Don't die of ignorance" and Edinburgh shooting galleries of drug misusers come to mind - but we sorted that one out, didn't we? Read more... |