Last week Deborah Galbraith posed an interesting question after receiving a reply to her concerns about SPENs proposal from one of the area’s politicians. In essence the response from the politician stated that while they have similar concerns to Deborah about the routeing and the apparent lack of consideration of the alternatives they believe the … More D&Gs Future Business Development: does it need this upgrade?

It is frustrating to learn that SPEN are advising our MSPs that their proposed strategic reinforcement project is needed because the existing system is old.  So let’s explore this in some depth. The over-riding driving force is not because the existing system is old.  If it were it could be simply replaced on a like … More SPEN: please don’t mislead us!