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Alison Burns, Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate for Dundee City West at last week’s election, and her husband James Taylor, who was part of the LibDem team for Mid Scotland and Fife, have put together a short but rather good video!

I am not long back from the AV referendum count at DISC after three hours sleep last night and a 22.5 hour working day on polling day, so I’ll try to keep this necessarily short … The election result has been exceptionally disappointing for the Liberal Democrats and in Dundee it was no different.   I would [...]

Superb Sunday!

Posted: May 1, 2011 in Alison Burns, Pentland

Another beautiful morning in the West End whilst campaigning for Alison Burns - this photo was taken in Pentland earlier today :

Dundee City West Liberal Democrat candidate Alison Burns was featured in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday.     With a varied career, starting as the first female apprentice at Timex, becoming a lawyer, running a hugely successful artist management company and having a career as a superb jazz singer, Alison has a bit more to offer than run [...]

A few of us that were out campaigning for Alison Burns (centre) today!

Liberal Democrats in Dundee were today quick off the mark in formally adopting well known Dundee lawyer and jazz singer Alison Burns as their parliamentary candidate for the re-named “Dundee City West” parliamentary seat, that includes the West End. Brought up in Downfield, Alison became one of the first female apprentice engineers at Timex in 1977, [...]

My Dundee Liberal Democrat colleagues – parliamentary candidates Alison Burns (Dundee City West) and Allan Petrie (Dundee City East) have met up with Alison McInnes, Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, in the West End to show their support for the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign.   They are pictured below in Taylor’s Lane. Alison [...]

As featured on tonight’s STV News and on local radio, North East Scotland MSP Alison McInnes, together with myself and Dundee Liberal Democrat colleagues, today launched a petition outside Tayside Police’s Headquarters that invites the public to support the campaign to stop Scotland’s emergency services being centralised into Scotland-wide force. Alison then visited the Broughty Ferry [...]

Michael Moore MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, was in Dundee earlier today and, along with our two Dundee LibDem parliamentary candidates Alison Burns and Allan Petrie, I had the pleasure of meeting him during his visit. The photograph below is of (from left) Allan Petrie, myself, Michael Moore and Alison Burns, pictured at RRS [...]

 Announcement from Dundee Liberal Democrats this afternoon : Well known Dundee lawyer and jazz singer Alison Burns has become the new Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate for Dundee West in advance of next year’s Scottish Parliamentary elections. Alison’s life, which saw her go from being the first female apprentice engineer at Timex, to a lawyer and [...]