
Threat from ticks
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.
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 said that the SNP Government must not hurry through important legislation to reform legal services after it was forced into removing unchecked ministerial powers from the Legal Ser
Speaking ahead of the new Glen Sannox ferry making its maiden voyage to the Isle of Arran, as news broke of defects affecting one of its decks and further delays expected for its sister ship, the Glen Rosa, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on the Scottish Government to "plug the holes" in Scotland's sewage dumping data, as new analysis by his party revealed that Scottish Water does not record the number of faults with moni
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has called on the Scottish Government to roll out a network of safe drug consumption centres as the first facility of its kind in the UK is set to open in Glasgow on Monday.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the First Minister to urgently act on the number of babies who spend the first days of their lives withdrawing from drugs, calling for investment in recovery services and extra he
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur has today urged the SNP to do far more to support police officers and staff as he revealed that the number of working police officer and staff days lost to mental health absences has risen sharp
The armed forces community - service personnel, their families and veterans - deserve a fair deal. For too long, they have been taken for granted by this Conservative Government.
Slavery, in all its forms, is an affront to the fundamental British principle of individual liberty. No human being should ever be enslaved.
The Liberal Democrats have become the first UK party to commit to protecting the triple lock on pensions in the next Parliament.
We’re heading to Bournemouth for the party’s first in-person autumn conference in four years. As ever, the agenda is packed full of topical debates on the biggest issues facing Britain today.
Food prices have soared by 30% in the last two years, the biggest rise on record.
Liberal Democrats demand water firms measure how much sewage they are discharging into waterways