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 leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today attacked the Scottish Government’s record on environmental protection after it was revealed that the government-owned water company has dumped sewage on thousands of occasions during dry weathe
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today urged the SNP/Green Government to reverse years of neglect of Scotland’s Fire and Rescue Service after analysis by his party revealed that the oldest appliance in the service's fle
Responding to Ash Regan's defection from the SNP to Alba, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesperson Liam McArthur has today accused the Scottish Government of making scant progress on heat emissions from buildings and called for a massively expanded national insulation programme to cut bills and e
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today challenged the First Minister over increases to NHS dentistry charges and revealed that more than 136,000 calls have been made to emergency dental care lines by those unable to register wit
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP Jamie Stone has today called on the Scottish Government to tackle dangerous trunk roads and speed up efforts to dual the A9 as new figures showed that the number of people killed on the roads reached its highest le
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.