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.
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
Liberal Democrat MP and Scottish Affairs committee member Christine Jardine MP has today accused SNP ministers of contempt as she hit out at their refusal to appear to answer questions at Westminster’s Scottish Affairs committee.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has urged the SNP/Green Government to act now to tackle the steady decline in firefighters, after new figures revealed that the number of firefighters has dropped to its lowest level in the
Responding to the Auditor General’s embargoed report on adult mental health services, which describes access to those services as “slow and complicated,” especially for “ethnic minority groups, people living in rural areas and those in poverty,” and which
Responding to the embargoed annual report from HM Chief Inspector of Prisons which warns of major concerns over prisons regularly operating above their design capacity, antiquated Victorian prison establishments that breach human rights guidelines, and st
Responding to the news that the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) and Good Law Project will take legal action against the Scottish Government unless it acts urgently to uphold its commitments over the climate crisis, Scottish Liberal Democra
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
