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.
Commenting on Audit Scotland’s embargoed report into the rollout of childcare which warns that the sector is fragile, Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to the news that a joint Fatal Accident Inquiry will take place into the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today criticised the Scottish and UK governments for leaving businesses "caught in the middle" amid the DRS row, following Lorna Slater’s statement to Parliament on the Deposit Return Scheme.
Responding to new figures which show there was an 8% fall in diagnosis for all cancer in 2020 and that survival estimates were generally lower for the cohort diagnosed with cancer in 2020 (e.g. one-year survival: 67.5% in 2020 vs 71.1% in 2018-19 for all
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the Health Secretary Michael Matheson to avoid the "reckless approach" of his predecessor following the news that 1 in 7 Scots are on an NHS waiting list f
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today unveiled a series of attack ads which place First Minister Humza Yousaf at the top of a new SNP/Green sewage league table, detailing the ten government ministers whose constituencies or reg
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
