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.
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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.
Responding to Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay's claim that his party will put Scotland's cost-of-living crisis front and centre of its campaign, Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat West of Scotland MSP Jamie Greene has today (Monday 23rd March) urged the Scottish Government not to drag its feet on reforms to victims’ rights, as it has emerged that timescales for certain key changes are still missing.
Scottish Liberal Democrat rural affairs spokesperson Beatrice Wishart has today said that communities risk being washed away as she revealed that out of the 42 flood defence projects the Scottish Government announced would be built by 2021, just half have
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has said his party would formally request that serious waste crime become a strategic priority for the National Crime Agency, as he revealed that there have been just 5 convictions for flytipping in
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued a devastating analysis of Reform UK's Scottish manifesto, saying it is "not credible", "unserious at best", and "a mirage created by a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the current devolution settlement".
Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP has today said that the SNP’s ferry scandal is “engulfing” the west of Scotland, as CalMac’s new summer timetable shows many services are set to face further disruption.
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.