Aileen Campbell, SNP MSP for South of Scotland, has announced a summer surgery programme with a difference.  Constituents in the region will be invited to meet with Aileen to discuss any concerns or issues they have in hotels, cafés and coffee shops across the area, rather than usual venues of local and community halls.

Aileen Campbell, SNP MSP for South of Scotland, has spent one of the first days of the Scottish Parliament’s summer recess visiting a range of local community projects that have benefited from Lottery funding. Her tour, accompanied by Big Lottery’s Public Affairs Manager in Scotland, John Duncan, took her to St Bride’s Community Centre in Douglas, Carstairs Bowling Club, and the Clydesdale Befrienders group in Lanark.

Commenting on the decision by South Lanarkshire Council’s Planning Committee to reject the application for a sand and gravel quarry at Overburns Farm, near Lamington, Aileen Campbell MSP said: 

Aileen Campbell, SNP MSP for South of Scotland, has welcomed the The Big Lottery Fund’s launch of a new multi million pound fund aimed at tackling need and supporting disadvantaged communities across Scotland.