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.
Speaking ahead of the Scottish Parliament voting on the SNP government’s plans to scrap their climate targets, after years of failing to meet them and the UK Climate Change Committee describing them as ‘no longer credible’, Scottish Liberal Democrat clima
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today led an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the implications of last week’s Budget for farming communities. During the Urgent Question Mr Carmichael highlighted past undertakings by the DEFRA Se
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that successive SNP Health Secretaries have failed staff and patients as he revealed research by his party which shows that Scottish NHS workers logged concerns
Speaking ahead of the result of the UK Conservative Party leader, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to reports that a police officer has been injured and more than a dozen buses damaged in Edinburgh as a result of violent attacks breaking out in the city, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to the news that the Scottish Government is ditching its plans for a pilot of juryless trials, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey is demanding the Chancellor cancels plans to hike the average household energy bill by £500 in April, and cuts people’s bills instead.
Liberal Democrats continue to be proud to stand shoulder to shoulder against tyranny, and we will stand with Ukraine until they are victorious.
Regulations covering workers rights, parental leave, child safety and more could be scrapped by this Conservative Government.
Each year, thousands step up to support a child who is unable to live with their birth parents.
A typical family has been left almost £1,200 poorer in the 100 days since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister
The Government has caved into the Liberal Democrat campaign to end sewage discharges into rivers.
