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.
The Liberal Democrats have written to the Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden calling on him to scrap the government rule that led to nerve agent expert, Dan Kaszeta being banned from speaking at a Ministry of Defence conference on chemical weapons.
Responding to the comments made by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Sir Iain Livingstone, that the force is “institutionally discriminatory and racist,” Scottish Liberal Democrat deputy leader and former police officer Wendy Chamberlain MP said:
Commenting on the embargoed report from the Auditor General into the Scottish criminal courts backlog, which has seen average waiting times for the most serious crimes such as serious assault, murder and rape more than double since 2020, Scottish Liberal
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland today voted in favour of further ‘theological research’ on the issue of assisted dying, rejecting a motion which would have reaffirmed its opposition.
Responding to figures from Transport Scotland showing that in 2022, 174 people lost their lives on Scotland's roads, the highest since 2016, Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross MP Jamie Stone said:
Responding to comments from BMA Scotland warning of a “full-blown crisis” in general practice, and new figures showing Scotland has lost nearly 90 surgeries in the last decade, while almost one in 10 has closed their lists to new patients, Scottish Libera
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
