Andrew Arbuckle (born 12 April 1944) is a

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politician, and a former

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(MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region. He was a

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councillor until 2012. He was first elected as a councillor in 1986. He replaced

Keith Raffan Keith William Twort Raffan (born 21 June 1949) is a former British politician. From 1983 to 1992, he served in the British House of Commons as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Delyn constituency in Wales. Then from 1999 to 20 ...

at the

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after Raffan resigned in 2005. Arbuckle failed to win re-election at the

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. Arbuckle was the farming editor for the Dundee Courier from 1985 to 2005. He and his brother John published three farming-related books.

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