All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
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?
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP will tomorrow (Thursday 23rd October) visit The Thistle Safer Drug Consumption Facility in Glasgow, where he will set out his party’s plans for combatting the harms caused by drugs and tackling Scotl
Highland Liberal Democrats have today (Thursday 23rd October) highlighted the SNP’s “broken relationship with rural Scotland”, after an embargoed report from the Accounts Commission warned that council cuts to culture and leisure services could harm more
Jamie Stone, MP for Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross, will lead a backbench business debate on devolution in Scotland, scheduled in the House of Commons on Wednesday 22nd October.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today condemned SNP hypocrisy over mandatory digital ID, during a debate on the issue in Parliament.
Responding to the Scottish Government's draft Circular Economy Strategy, published while Biffa separately sues the Scottish Government in court for £166m in damages over the collapsed deposit return scheme, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spok
Following a damning series of findings published in a new health survey, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that "voting SNP is bad for your health."
Caring isn't just Ed's story, it's the story of millions, caring for each other, dealing with tough times, and keeping going with love.
The Liberal Democrats are standing up for our NHS, addressing the cost of living crisis, and ensuring everyone gets the support they need.
Time to elect fantastic Liberal Democrat MPs to champion their communities.
Families who remortgaged in 2023 are facing a mortgage bombshell of almost £9bn this year, with commuter belt areas in the Blue Wall hardest hit, new analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
For the first time since 1996 the Liberal Democrats won more seats than the Conservatives in the Local Elections.
Ten years ago today, the UK’s first same-sex marriages took place.