Click image to enlargeCheck out this picture of the plans on display at the Bishopbriggs Library. 
The Bishopbriggs High School (Academy) Sports Hall is coming down.
New Bishopbriggs Town Centre Plans...
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They point out that no other country in Europe routinely fingerprints children and that even communist China has abandoned plans for fingerprinting school pupils because it breaches human rights.
They quote the Minister for Schools and Learning, Jim Knight, who this summer admitted that the police can simply help themselves to the children's fingerprints if they are trying to solve a crime.
As one IT security consultant in Britain, Brian Drury, said recently: "If a child has never touched a fingerprint scanner, there is zero probability of being incorrectly investigated for a crime.
"Once a child has touched a scanner they will be at the mercy of the algorithm [stored in the school computer] for the rest of their lives."
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As many as 200,000 primary and high school children from the age of seven have already been finger printed. Supplier Micro Librarian Systems estimates that its technology, which is similar to identification systems used in US prisons and by the German military, is in use by 350 schools throughout the country.
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The Scottish Government's school building plans have come under fire, with Labour branding their absence of clear spending plans an "outrage".
The Tories claimed that the SNP administration's plans to replace PPP with a Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) have so far resulted in "confusion and uncertainty".
MSPs were debating the issue in Parliament after the Nationalists had pledged to match existing school building programmes "brick for brick" going into last year's election.
But Labour's shadow education secretary Rhona Brankin, herself a former teacher, said that the party had built or refurbished 328 schools during its eight years in power with the Liberal Democrats.
She said: "We have heard nothing, not one brass farthing has the SNP said they are going to spend on school building programmes and that's frankly an outrage."
Ministers claim they have inherited a hidden £65m liability for privately-financed school projects that the previous Labour-LibDem administration failed to budget for in full.
...by 2010-11 will be £165m as the true cost of the exponential rise in the value contracts has become clear.
These were only £17m last year but leapt to £48m this year before reaching £137m next year and a total of £165m by the final year of this parliament, all for projects that have already been built, are under construction, or have been approved.
Professor Allyson Pollock, head of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at Edinburgh University, said: "This is a phenomenal amount of debt being incurred and stored up, not only for this generation but for future generations too. Others have noted the ways in which we are mortgaging our children's futures.
"The high costs of PFI squeezes expenditure on public services spending. In health, there is very good research evidence of the ways in which PFI drains money from public services and as a result services are cut and closed to pay the PFI charges and profits of the banks and shareholders."
The SNP's National Rail Improvement Plan are proposals for platform extensions at Queen Street and Bishopbriggs to allow increased capacity
They could ignore the public when it came to consultation but they couldn't when it came to voting for their job.
