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Mike Weir MP, SNP Spokesperson on Postal Services, has expressed deep concern at the decision of Royal Mail to seek a judicial review of the decision by Postcomm to refuse its application for the introduction of zonal pricing.

Comments on the statement today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on compensation for those hit by the scrapping of the 10p rate of tax by SNP Westminster Treasury spokesperson, Stewart Hosie.

SNP Westminster Energy spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has condemned news from British Gas owner Centrica of potential further bill hikes for customers after revealing that continued high wholesale gas prices would hit results this year. In January Centrica announced an increase in gas and electricity charges of 15 per cent.

Angus SNP MP, Mike Weir, has condemned the UK Government for its failure to accept any responsibility for last year’s outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in southern England, which caused huge financial problems for many Scottish farmers.

Scottish television audiences are poorly informed and have a skewed perspective on events in their own country because of a failure by the national BBC news programmes to provide coverage of events outside England.

A year after leading the SNP to a historic election victory, Alex Salmond is still enjoying a strong personal standing among Scots, according to a new poll.

A study of seven opinion polls shows support for Independence has gone up from 27 per cent last May to 41 per cent this month, while opposition to Scotland going it alone has dropped from 47 per cent to 40.

The SNP has fulfilled its election pledge to hold a public inquiry into how people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV through contaminated blood products.

First Minister Alex Salmond today set out to woo union bosses by stressing how they and his administration were working together as "social partners".