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Dundee United lift the cup

Monday 17 May 2010 20:01 Posted by Will Dawson & Christina Roberts
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It was a beautiful day followed by a great result for Dundee United. I'm not the greatest follower of football in the world however tend to try and watch when Scotland and the home teams are playing.

However had to do other things on the day of the final but managed to listen to the whole match on Radio Scotland. The first half was as many said a quieter affair to that of the second half but what a second half.
I would like to pass on my congratulations to the team and all the staff at united for a job well done.


Ross county also deserve sincere congratulation on getting as far as they did in the competition. I love to see the smaller teams getting a chance and this one was well deserved.
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Dundee International Book Prize - Top 4 Announced

Tuesday 11 May 2010 20:52 Posted by Will Dawson & Christina Roberts
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2010 - Dundee International Book Prize

This is the UK's premier prize for emerging novelists and the final four have been announced. This is the biggest award in the UK for an unpublished writer and after more than a hundred entries were received from around the world, four have made the cut.

Dundee is committed to supporting innovation and the City is a hub of creativity - whether that's in the arts, digital gaming or music. The book prize shows that we are serious about recognising and celebrating that talent. The book prize is a fantastic way of discovering new writing talent and the fact that the judges have chosen four finalists this year instead of three shows the breadth and scope of the talent out there.

Extracts of the final four have been published at
www.literarydundee.co.uk/bookprize.htm
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Stewart Hosie returned as Dundee East MP

20:24 Posted by Will Dawson & Christina Roberts
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Congratulations to Stewart Hosie who has been returned as MP for Dundee East. Stewart is a hard working MP and the people of the constituency have obviously realised this by returning him with an increased majority.

It is unfortunate that this election was such that people in Scotland were running scared of a Conservative Government or we generally would have hoped to have had Jim Barrie elected also.

Below is a message from Stewart and Jim;

SNP Candidates Stewart Hosie and Jim Barrie thanked the 26,066 voters in the Dundee East and Dundee West constituencies who voted SNP. The SNP gained 34.4 of the vote over the two constituencies.

Stewart said:"we want to thank all those who voted for us on Thursday and helped us to increase our vote across both constituencies.

I am delighted to have been re-elected as MP for Dundee East and I pledge to work hard for my constituents and for the City during the next term of Parliament to fulfil their trust in me."

Jim Barrie said: "I thank all those electors who supported us. We put a strong challenge to Labour in Dundee West. Clearly we lost out because the election was dominated to a great degree by the TV debates - from which we were excluded

It was therefore difficult for us to get our message heard. Labour managed to scare the voters that if they did not vote Labour they would get a Tory Government.

Of course it now looks like they will get a Tory Government anyway although the negotiation over the next few days will be interesting.

What is certain is that Labour massively lost out in England while they scooped up anti-Tory votes in Scotland.

Although we are disappointed we did not win in Dundee West, this is our best performance in a UK General Election since the 1970's"
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