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.
North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie has today written to the minister for parliamentary business calling for a ministerial statement on disgraced NHS Tayside surgeon Sam Eljamel.
Responding to the concerns of six community councils, published in the Ferret, about how the continued disruption to the Corran ferry is leaving residents with “no alternative but to move out of the area,” as they cited the “drastic impact” of the disrupt
Ahead of Parliament returning next week, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on ministers to deliver a statement to MSPs addressing the presence of dangerous concrete in public sector buildings and committing to a national
Responding to the embargoed Home Affairs committee report into drugs policy, Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said:
Responding to a new Scottish Government report which shows that the rate of those dying in custody has trebled since 2012, with 25 individuals dying within a week of entering prison and a further 35 dying within 30 days, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice
Responding to new national statistics showing that Scotland’s GDP fell by 0.3% between April and June, Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP commented:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
