🔴 SNP cuts blamed as 999 response times slowest in decade

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In the meantime, we can bring you some of today's news, with figures revealing emergency calls to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are now responded to more slowly than at any point in the past ten years.

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SNP cuts blamed as fire service 999 response times slowest in decade

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Elsewhere in our coverage, Rural Affairs Correspondent Katharine Hay reports that work is to start on a new £8 million Gaelic language and culture centre hoped to boost the local economy and preserve culture in a region on Scotland’s most visited island.