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 research by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that more than half of Scots are “not confident” they would be able to access mental health support if they need it, with only 11% being optimistic that mental health services will improve,
Responding to the new RSPB state of nature report which reveals 1 in 9 species is threatened with national extinction and that in the last decade alone, 43% of species have declined strongly, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesperson Liam M
Responding to the Scottish Government's new policy paper on supporting Ukrainians in Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today demanded a statement from the Environment Secretary after an investigation by The Ferret found that more than half of Scotland’s most popular beaches for wild swimming were polluted with unsafe levels of sewage this s
Speaking after the SNP and Greens voted down Scottish Liberal Democrat proposals for an emergency insulation programme during a debate on the climate crisis this afternoon, Scottish Liberal Democrat rural affairs spokesperson Beatrice Wishart MSP said:
After new figures revealed that more than 400 people requiring drug or alcohol treatment waited longer than the three-week target, Scottish Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the SNP/Green government to take “radical and transform
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.
