{"id":382837,"date":"2025-08-29T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382837\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:06:14","slug":"scotland-loves-local-week-2025-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382837\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Loves Local Week 2025 \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Johnson visited local businesses in his constituency as part of Scotland Loves Local Week 2025, urging people to choose local\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Business and Fair Work\u00a0Daniel Johnson\u00a0 MSP<\/strong>\u00a0showed his support for the Scotland Loves Local campaign as he visited local businesses in his Edinburgh Southern constituency.<\/p>\n

People make Places is the theme of activity across the country during the week, encouraging everyone to get behind those who make local businesses so special \u2013 helping to protect the\u00a0 jobs of friends, relatives and neighbours.<\/p>\n

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Speaking during his visit,\u00a0Mr Johnson\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cAs a former retailer, I know first-hand how much local independent businesses contribute to high street communities in Scotland. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMorningside High Street, in the heart of Edinburgh Southern, is a fantastic example of this \u2013 a community minded high street with a varied and diverse array of shops and places to eat and drink.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is much to celebrate but our high streets also face challenges. That is why in 2021, I introduced the Protection of Workers (Scotland) Act which has been used thousands of times to protect shopworkers from violence, threats and abuse at work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst the Act has been successful, much more needs to be done across the board to help our high streets thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was joined on the visit by Chief Officer of Scotland\u2019s Towns Partnership Kimberley Guthrie and Scotland Loves Local Programme Coordinator Nicola Hutchinson.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kimberley Guthrie<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u201cScotland Loves Local Week is a celebration of local excellence and celebrating the people who make places.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been fantastic to see such a tremendous amount of support from across the political spectrum for this year\u2019s celebrations, helping to showcase the great spirit of entrepreneurialism, innovation and community we have in Scotland.<\/p>\n

The simple act of thinking local first has a profound effect and can have a transformational impact on local economies, laying the foundations to make our places stronger and more sustainable for the future\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Scotland Loves Local Week is spearheaded by Scotland\u2019s Towns Partnership (STP) as part of its drive for people to build stronger, more sustainable futures for their community by supporting the businesses in their area, potentially injecting millions of pounds more into regional economies.<\/p>\n

It has calculated that almost \u00a326.8m more could be driven directly into the city of Edinburgh economy if every person spent just \u00a31-a-week more with local businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Johnson visited local businesses in his constituency as part of Scotland Loves Local Week 2025, urging people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112914910029377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}