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.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today warned the police’s Special Constabulary is heading for extinction after he revealed that their numbers have fallen sharply since the SNP’s police centralisation.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP today said the Scottish Government is letting down the poorest children after publishing new analysis showing more than half of two-year-olds eligible for funded early learning and childca
Almost half of adults in Scotland will shop at cheaper supermarkets, buy fewer presents and go to pubs and restaurants less this Christmas. Liberal Democrats ask, ‘After years of economic mismanagement on both sides of the border, is anybody better off?'
Responding to the news that rail fares will rise by 8.7% next year, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Responding to the rebuke at Parliament of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland by Audit Scotland, after spending was uncovered on gift cards that breached tax and public finance rules, expensive dinners, and a £77,000 Harvard training course for one
Responding to the Scottish Government’s parliamentary statement on dualling the A9, in which the Cabinet Secretary confirmed that the project will now be completed 10 years late and almost 30 years after the SNP first promised the electorate to dual it, S
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
