Biography – Bruce Luffman,
council candidate for Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Bruce
spent 35 years in farming all over England and latterly
built up a farming partnership in Hertfordshire that
employed over 80 staff and specialised in large scale dairy,
arable, brussel sprouts and outdoor pig enterprises, Open
Farm to 250,000 visitors a year and processing dairy
products for the major supermarkets nationally.
He decided to stop farming
and change his life in 1996 and moved permanently to
Scotland. He helped Carole with her business before joining
the Conservative Party in 1998 and becoming a Councillor.
Bruce has been the
Aberdeenshire Councillor for Donside and Cromar since 1999.
He specialises in finance with his understanding for fiscal
matters in the Council and also has an expert understanding
of planning, waste and tourism issues.
Bruce lives in Strathdon and
his wife, Carole, runs the only 5 star B&B in the new
Cairngorms National Park. Bruce has been a Board member of
the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) since April
2003 and also a member of the North Board of the Scottish
Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) since June 1999. He
has been the Chairman of the South Aberdeenshire Licensing
Board since 2003, the Chairman of the CNPA Tourism Forum and
the Vice chairman of the Council's Audit & Scrutiny
Committee since 2002.
Bruce is 59 yrs old and has
been married to Carole for 39 years. They have one daughter,
Charlotte, who has produced an only grand-daughter in 2006.
Charlotte is married to a London police sergeant and lives
in Stevenage.
You can e-mail
Bruce at
bruce@wakconservatives.com
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