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 written to the First Minister calling on him to refer himself to the Independent Adviser on the Scottish Ministerial Code.
Responding to the news that Forres Academy in Moray has been closed to pupils for two days while structural engineers assess a “higher level of risk” from dangerous concrete, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat communities spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has called for an increase in the capacity of the winter vaccination programme after people in constituency faced problems when trying to book appointments.
Responding to reports that Nicola Sturgeon has set up a company to handle the income from her outside earnings after signing a lucrative deal for her memoirs which lists its purpose as “artistic creation”, Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie said:
Responding to comments made this morning by Ross Haggart, Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, at the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee, where he stated that since 2019 the service has been made aware of 14 fire stations w
Responding to SQA Chief Executive Fiona Robertson's comments to the Scottish Parliament education committee in which she warned that the organisation had lost good people when the government delayed for 6 months any decision on compulsory redundancies and
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
