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 an Audit Scotland report which states that the Scottish Government is making “short-term savings” which fail to address “the public sector’s unsustainable finances”, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to the news that steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta, who owns the Dalzell steel plant in Motherwell and the Lochaber aluminium smelter, is being prosecuted over his alleged failure to file accounts for more than 70 companies, Scottish Liberal Democrat
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament during this afternoon’s session of First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has filed a parliamentary motion on antisocial behaviour which calls on the Scottish Government to strengthen police and community responses to ensure that all reports of antisocial behaviour are tak
Responding to the resignation of the chairman of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, after the body came under fire for various financial failings, including spending on gift cards that breached tax and public finance rules and a £77,000 Harvard t
Responding to John Swinney claiming that the SNP Government can still achieve its legally binding target to reduce child poverty to 10% by 2030, despite almost a quarter of children currently living in poverty and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warning th
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
