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 MSP for Shetland Beatrice Wishart will on Tuesday lead a debate on the opportunities and challenges facing Scotland’s fishing sector in which she will call on the Scottish Government to address the issue of “spatial squeeze” – th
Responding to reporting in the Herald that executives at Scottish Water have had their bonuses hiked by over a third in one year, despite an increase in sewage dumps and water bills set to increase by almost 10% in April, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader
Speaking ahead of a visit to the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today said that he wants to explore how Scotland can use advances in science, technology and medica
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today said that the SNP are undermining measures to tackle child poverty as he revealed that £3m worth of education funding intended to support deprived pupils is being spent on counci
Responding to the embargoed analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that the number of Scots waiting more than 12 hours in A&E is 99 times higher than it was 14 years ago, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to a new IFS report which projects a sharp drop in the number of pupils in Scotland by 2040, amid many teachers already struggling to find full-time work and a shortage of teachers in rural areas, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperso
Liberal Democrats gained 407 councillors and control of 12 councils in England, giving us our best result in decades.
British people are struggling with eye-watering food prices and yet this Conservative Government is refusing to help. Liberal Democrats are putting forward a proper plan to make food cheaper.
This is a devastating blow to our country’s environment.
We love our country and want to transform it for the better. To build a liberal Britain, and spread real opportunity to every city, town and village across our great United Kingdom. To deliver the fair deal that the British people deserve.
The anti-refugee Braverman Bill is immoral, unworkable and incredibly costly.
Everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed in life and access to the same opportunities. Sadly that is not the case in the UK.
