The new owners of Tennents Brewery in Glasgow's Dennistoun met with two of the city's MSPs about the pending acquisition by C&C of Ireland, the company behind the highly successful Magners cider product.

SNP MSPs Bob Doris and Anne McLaughlin met with Chief Executive Officer, John Dunsmore, and Chief Operating Officer, Stephen Glancey. The workforce are currently in talks with present owners Inbev over staff transfer arrangements ahead of C&C's shareholders approval of the sale.

Both MSPs were keen to open a positive dialogue with C&C at the earliest opportunity and the talks were an excellent initial step.

Bill Kidd and Sandra White, SNP MSPs for the Glasgow region, have welcomed figures which show that the number of children, aged three to five, registered with an NHS dentist for the West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP)  region has risen to its highest level – from 4,054, in December 2007, to 4,705 in March 2009. This represents a 16.1 per cent increase during this period.

Separate figures, also for the West Glasgow CHCP region, show that there has been a 10% rise in the number of NHS dentists since 2007; this amounts to an additional 16 registered dentists, from 140 (31st March 2007) to 156 (31st March 2009). 

• Anne McLaughlin MSP to seek meeting with Tennent's Brewery owners.

• Bob Doris MSP to write to potential new owners C&C Group Plc.

Anne McLaughlin SNP MSP for Glasgow has written to the owners of the Tennent's brewery at Wellpark in the Dennistoun part of the city to seek an urgent meeting in order to gain reassurances for workers and for the famous Tennent's brand over the strategic decision of Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell the brand to C&C Group Plc.

Glasgow MSP Anne McLaughlin will tomorrow (Wednesday 5th August) hand over a Saltire to the St Andrew's Hotel in Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka.

After her last trip to Sri Lanka Miss McLaughlin promised to return with a Saltire for the Scottish themed hotel.

Commenting Anne McLaughlin MSP said: "During my previous visit, in which I was engaged in relief work around the country, I was delighted to come across the St Andrew's Hotel in Sri Lanka. It is a fantastic establishment which promotes the best of Scotland, from golf to tartan; however, the one thing that was missing was a Saltire flag flying from its flagpole so I promised to bring one back.

Willie Coffey and Bob Doris have continued their campaign to keep the Diageo facilities in Kilmarnock and Port Dundas open.

Kilmarnock MSP Willie Coffey today met with trade union representatives at the Johnnie Walker plant and is writing to Diageo seeking a review of the timescales in which they plan to transfer workers from the Hurlford consolidation warehouse in Ayrshire to Malcolms, an external company.

The online petition launched by Mr Coffey has now reached over 4,000 signatures with at least 2,000 more collected locally and more people signing up by the minute.

SNP MSPs in Glasgow hailed the results of this week's European Elections, which saw the SNP, for only the second time in its history, win a national election. In addition to securing the largest share of the national vote, the results showed an incredible breakthrough for the SNP in many Labour strongholds - including Glasgow.

Commenting on the significance of the victory Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy Leader of the SNP said: "Today's result has massive implications for the political landscape in Scotland. For the first time in our history the SNP has won a UK-wide election in Scotland.

"The people have given their verdicts on both the UK and Scottish Government, and while clearly abandoning Labour in their droves, voters have given the SNP-led Scottish Government a massive vote of confidence.