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This week, Miss Wagstaff has learnt that while the Assembly is away, the politicians will play. It may still be Assembly Recess (until 8 April 2008), but the build-up to local elections in May have got Labour and Plaid Cymru in a constant state of flux. Going off tangent for a minute, the website of the [...]

With Holyrood in recess for a fortnight, it seemed sensible to make this more of a ‘bite-sized’ effort, summing up what’s been going on. Scottish Labour met in Aviemore - hence the Aviemore Angle, as this is where the bulk of the stories come from - last weekend, for the first time since the party’s defeat [...]

This week, Pippa Wagstaff writes her first column for the Wardman Wire about events at the National Assembly for Wales (the Senedd) in Cardiff.

Welcome to this week's Holyrood Herald. In one sense, this is quite an easy Roundup to put together as there has only been one big story, and it's Scotland's place in the Union. Momentum has been gathering on this matter since before the election: when an SNP-led Government looked like a possibility (around the Summer of 2006, after the Moray By-Election which saw the SNP not only hold the seat but increase their share of the vote, aong with the collapse in the Labour vote in a handful of Council By-Elections), pundits began discussing independence in the most serious terms since the 1970s - even the constitutional discussions of the 1990s centred around devolution.