All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
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.
Responding to the Independent Advisers on the Ministerial Code deciding to launch an investigation into the conduct of Justice Secretary Angela Constance, Scottish Liberal Democrat business manager Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to the news that the farm tax inheritance threshold will increase from £1 million to £2.5 million, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to new figures showing only 70.7% of cancer patients started treatment within the 62-day standard treatment time between July and September, with the target missed in every health board area, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton
Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Jamie Greene MSP has today revealed that hundreds of drivers with 12 points or more on their record are still behind the wheel on Scotland’s roads as he called for an examination of whether persistent offen
Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson and MP for Mid Dunbartonshire Susan Murray has today said that the SNP are sending community services “down the tubes” as she revealed that the number of public toilets has collapsed since the SNP took power.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today called for an urgent overhaul of Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAIs), as he revealed that the total number of outstanding FAIs has increased by 18% compared to last year, taking it to
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.
Liberal Democrat Leader rallies his party ahead of this year's General Election.
