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.
The average cost of travelling abroad for an assisted death in Switzerland has increased by a staggering 50% in the past 5 years. This option is out of reach for the majority of dying Scots.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today revealed that thousands of pupils across Scotland are at risk from schools with potentially deadly concrete, after new research by his party found that 19,322 pupils are currently on the ro
Speaking as the Great British Beach Clean gets underway, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today urged the Scottish Government to do everything in its power to clean up Scotland’s sewage problem and to tackle plastics pollution o
Responding to reports that the SNP will attempt to open negotiations on Scottish independence with the next UK Government if it wins a majority of Scottish seats at the next general election, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Responding to the first results of the 2022 census, which show that while Scotland’s population is now at its highest ever recorded, the rate of growth was one of the slowest in the UK (2.7%) and without immigration the population would have decreased by
Responding to a new report published by the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council which shows that nearly half (49%) of all care services in Scotland reported having vacancies at the end of 2022, the highest level since publication of
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
