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.
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 the changes in the energy price cap, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said:
Two years on from the launch of the NHS Recovery Plan, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has called on the Health Secretary to rip up the Scottish Government’s "dismal" strategy and start afresh, after a second year of spiralling wai
Responding to today’s Scottish Police Authority meeting and board papers which warn that the funding allocation provided by the Scottish Government will mean reducing the police workforce, a recruitment pause and reducing levels of service provided to the
Released today, the Home Office’s own statistics show that the asylum backlog has reached a record high, with 175,457 people waiting for an initial decision on their claim as of the end of June.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today warned that lollipop staff are becoming an endangered species, after new figures revealed that their numbers have fallen dramatically under successive SNP governments.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today accused Humza Yousaf of leaving a legacy of staff shortages, after research by his party revealed that Scottish NHS workers logged concerns about short staffing on m
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.