All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Speaking as rail fares across Scotland rise by 8.7%, Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Daniel O’Malley said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur has today published his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon during an urgent question, where he uncovered that the Cabinet Secretary knew that the contract of the outgoing Chief Executive at Ferguson Marine could be terminated a month before it happened, and that
Responding to the publication of the Scottish Government’s Housing (Scotland) Bill today, Scottish Liberal Democrat communities spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to the news that a ransomware group is threatening to publish a huge cache of stolen data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway, which includes confidential information on patients, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Daniel O’Malley has accused the SNP Government of "decimating Scotland's bus network" as new figures published today reveal that bus journeys have plummeted by 31% since 2011.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
