Scotland
in the
heat
SR’s remarkable growth as an independent magazine is based largely on word of mouth. Here are examples of our journalism:
* SR has been among the most prominent voices in the Megrahi affair, calling for a public inquiry and the release of an unpublished report into the case
* SR played a leading role in the successful campaign to save St Margaret of Scotland Hospice
* SR campaigned for greater transparency in Scottish public life and won a landmark judgement from the Scottish information commissioner which has led to a transformation in the information available about executive salaries and pensions in public bodies
* Having discovered elderly people still living in a near-derelict block of flats in Glasgow, sometimes without a water supply, SR campaigned to have them decently re-housed. With the help of Scotland’s housing minister, Alex Neil, we succeeded
The Cafe
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Daniel O’Donnell
could be just the man
to save poor old Donegal
Bill Heaney
Daniel O’Donnell
They want to use his huge popularity to turn things around by creating a museum in his honour to attract ‘Daniel tourists’, who were a familiar
sight here until about 10 years ago.
Bill Heaney, a Scottish journalist, travelled to Ireland with Stena Line
on the Superfast 7 ferry from the recently opened port of Cairnryan in Wigtownshire.
