12-Jan-07

New social research published today shows what people think and expect from the State and public services. And a new project of ‘citizen forums’ will be faced with real-life examples of the choices government faces, and advise it on policy.

With the agreed purchase of Lewis’s Galson Estate by a community buy-out yesterday, more than half of the land in the Western Isles – for centuries concentrated in the hands of private landlords – now rests in public or community ownership.