News about Alan Robertson

Scotland's senior medics have been offered an 11 per cent pay rise in a bid to tackle NHS staff shortages. The British Medical Association (BMA) will tell consultants to accept the Scottish Government offer after 'intense negotiations', amid a vacancy rate of more than 7 per cent. The £124.9million package, if accepted, will see basic pay for doctors rise 10.5 per cent. A further investment of £5.7million to update the pay grading system means that the offer is the equivalent of an 11 per cent rise.

In a poll of 2,600 conducted by Direct Line, people were asked to rank what they thought made Britain the place it is today. Shockingly, it turns out that the UK's army of white van drivers were found to be more of a British institution than the Royal Family. The poll also found that food dominated what we think of as the 'most British', with a Sunday roast and Full English in the top five. Alan Robertson, 43, of Glasgow , said: 'Everyone loves a white van man or woman - they fix things we can't do ourselves, and they're not the demons on the road they used to be.