Nine out of ten people in Scotland say they would recycle waste like paper and glass if local councils set up doorstep collection services. The finding is one of the results of the largest ever survey of public attitudes to environmental issues in Scotland. 

An increase in so-called ‘golden hello’ payments to family doctors of up to 12,000 pounds has been announced to improve recruitment and retention of doctors, consultants and GPs in the NHS.The increase is included in a package of measures launched by the Health Minister John Hutton. The payments were first introduced in April 2001 and since then more than 1700 have been made. 

This report by the Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office sets out formal measures to ensure that good practice is adopted widely across the public sector. Risk management is seen as the art of getting the right balance between innovation and change on the one hand, and avoidance of shocks and crises on the other. It is now central to the business of good government.