FRACKING FOR SCOTLAND.

Had a letter published in the Scotsman today, 1st Aug 2013

LORDING IT OVER US. It has been reported that the Chancellor's father-in-law,Lord Howell, has advocated that fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England (31 July)
By all accounts his words have caused an outpouring of justifiable rage, prompting criticism that the words he used highlight the Conservatives' "problem with the North.
Nothing new there. In 1904 a Noble lord ,a former agriculture and fisheries minister, wrote: "But keep the Scottish mountains for sport with noblest animals that Britain produces."
     This only goes to show how much esteem , then and now, we in the northern parts of Britain are held in by our Southern betters!

This add-on is from the 3rd.June 1913. House Of Commons. Oral Answers.
Midlothian County Council .
Major Hope, asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he has received a letter from the Midlothian County Council requesting that in future the title "county of Midlothian" may be used by all Government Departments in connection with all local government affairs pertaining to the county; and whether,especially as confusion in business has sometimes been caused by different Government Departments using the different names county of Midlothian and county of Edinburgh, he can see his way to grant this request of the local authority chiefly concerned?
Mr. McKinnon Wood: The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I shall be glad to communicate the wish of the county council to other Government Departments and so far as possible to give effect to it in the Scottish Office. I must, however, point out that in some cases the county is described as Edinburgh or Edinburghshire in Acts of Parliament, and in proceedings under those Acts it may be necessary to adhere to the statuary style.
Major Hope: Would it not be possible by any means to arrange that the county should be known entirely as the county of Midlothian?
Mr McKinnon Wood: It would be possible by amending the Act, but it is a question whether it is worth the expenditure and the time.
Fin.