West Lothian’s RAAC campaigner has welcomed the decision by Holyrood to keep the national petition calling on help for home owners open.

The petition, one of hundreds before MSPs, had faced being closed because of time constraints of the current parliament, which faces an election next May.

MSPs agreed with a suggestion from Fergus Ewing MSP (Independent) that the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee use the remaining time to encourage new discussions between London and Edinburgh.

Kerry Macintosh, who is vice chair of the national RAAC UK campaign, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that she was delighted at the decision to keep the petition , which has gathered more than 2,500 signatures, open.

“I am really impressed with what the committee has done, and the de

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