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 new findings by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that frontline spend on mental health has reduced from 9.12% of the Scottish Government's budget in 2011/12 to 8.78% in 2021/22, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamil
Responding to the GERS figures published this morning, Scottish Liberal Democrat finance spokesperson John Ferry said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that a significant rise in the number of patients experiencing longer waits for treatment of broken hips is yet another poor legacy of Humza Yousaf's time as Health Secret
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today accused the SNP government of leaving behind care-experienced children, after new figures reveal that less than one in five looked after children achieve a C or above at Higher,
Responding to new figures showing only 66.5% where seen within 4 hours at A&E, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today urged the government to protect the policing budget and enhance community policing after new research by his party found that 57% of all car thefts during 2021/22 did not result in
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
