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 education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today urged the government to urgently invest in core education provision and avert a “national scandal,” after his party uncovered that there were more than 13,800 instances of violen
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today revealed that the repair bill for CalMac ferries hit £26.5m last year, taking the total for the last five years to over £100m.
Responding to the report by the Accounts Commission, which states that “radical change is needed across Scotland’s councils” and calls on the Scottish Government “to urgently finalise” a deal for local government which has been “long overdue,” Scottish Li
Responding to Permanent Secretary John-Paul Marks’ appearance at the Public Finance Committee earlier today, in which he defended civil servants continuing to work on Scottish independence, Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP today demanded ministers be held accountable for the ferries fiasco after Economy Secretary Neil Gray announced that he had issued a written instruction to breach public finance rules to get
Responding to new figures showing that only 65.8% of patients were seen across Scotland within the 4 hour target last week, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
