The Lennox Herald 19 February 2014 What’s love got to do with it..? We may well ask as red Valentine’s day hearts festoon our shop fronts and dining a deux dominates the slightly desperate meal-deals on offer in local eateries. Love did not have much to do with Beyonce’s duet with her rapper husband Jay-Z …
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Mither Scotia finally sues for divorce…..
The marriage was arranged (some would say forced), the bride was bonny but had no dowry – still and all the heads of both families were keen. She was fertile, hard working and would produce many weans to work in the family firm. She was promised a life of comfort, ease and foreign travel with …
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A Post from The Women’s Room….
Image by Lynne Connor Photography http://www.lynneconnorphotography.com 2013 was a good year….. for exposing domestic abuse perpetrators… but 2014 has started out less well for those on their tail. That darling of the right and consummate wealth creator the ‘great’ Charles Saatchi and, the now no longer ‘good’, Bill Walker, showed the Scottish public that the …
Who’s thinking about the kids?
http://www.scottishreview.net/AnniDonaldson141.shtml Things are getting a little complicated for GIRFEC (Getting it right for every child) and the prospects for the new Children and Young People Bill in the light of the Edinburgh social workers’ case, both highlighted in recent articles in SR. Readers may wonder…whither GIRFEC when it becomes formalised in the new bill? I …
GlasgowAnni is Best Article Award Winner – Write to End Violence Against Women Awards 2013
GlasgowAnni is Best Article Award Winner – Write to End Violence Against Women Awards 2013.
GlasgowAnni is Best Article Award Winner – Write to End Violence Against Women Awards 2013
Why was the Sherriff in the Walker case so puzzled? Follow this link to read this and all the other winning articles http://writetoendvaw.com/2013/11/13/and-the-winners-are/
Irene Campbell – an obituary – The Herald 12 October 2013
Irene Campbell Born: 22 March 1954 Died: 13 September 2013 Counsellor and Feminist Activist Irene Campbell who has died at the age of 59 years was a person-centred counsellor and feminist activist who worked to end domestic abuse and violence against women. Irene grew up in Milngavie in a large family. The highly acclaimed work …
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Cheek to cheek…
. …One Saturday night, walking back from town, they came to a ballroom on the south side. They bought tickets to go dancing. A big glitter ball slowly spun and cast it’s drifting polka dot shadows over the dance floor. A small orchestra was playing waltzes, foxtrots and tangos for the accomplished dancers –well dressed …
Peeny Roses
They always called them peeny roses. Elspeth’s big sister Jean looked after them in the sloping ‘L’ shaped tenement garden and that’s what she called them. The O’Haras didn’t bother with their garden on the opposite side of the stairs to the close like Jean did. Jean was an awful lot older than wee Elspeth, …
Scotland’s gender crime story
Scottish Review 17 September 2013 Nick Smithers (SR 10 September) rightly highlights the plight of male victims of domestic abuse in Scotland, although I have never maintained that domestic abuse is exclusively perpetrated by men against women. While women comprise the majority of victims in Scotland and throughout the world, I fully acknowledge that men …
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