Tag: foi

Council spends £9.5K on holidays for troubled kids and carers

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 28, 2015

A SCOTS council spent nearly £9,500 sending troubled youngsters and their carers on luxury holidays abroad. Shetland Council forked out the “totally inappropriate” sum treating...

Cop critiques budding author’s tortuous prose

Police

Deadline News Journalist - July 17, 2015

POLICE Scotland appear to have added literary criticism to their list of public duties. Newly-released documents detail the hilarious moment an officer lost his cool...

Scottish officials spend £400k on FoI legal advice

Scottish News

Guest - April 21, 2013

PUBLIC authorities in Scotland have paid lawyers more than £400,000 to help dodge freedom of information requests. More than 60 Scottish authorities have paid legal...

Councils spend more on paper despite expensive iPads

Scottish News

Guest - October 17, 2012

TWO Scottish councils who lavished their top bosses with brand new iPads have failed to cut down on printing costs as planned. Local authorities in...

Freedom of Information laws to be strengthened

In Brief

Deadline News Journalist - May 31, 2012

A BILL aimed at paving the way for more information to be made public, while significantly strengthening the deterrent against the deliberate destruction or...