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.
At the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference in Dundee, the party has today called for more support for schools and teachers to tackle growing cases of classroom violence.
Speaking at the Scottish Liberal Democrat spring conference in Dundee, Alex Cole-Hamilton will say that the departure of Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister offers a chance to make Scottish education the best in the world again.
As an increasing number of students in Scotland struggle with the rising cost of living, the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference has today approved calls for more action to be taken on the so-called cost of learning crisis.
At the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference today, party leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP challenged the next First Minister to appoint a dedicated mental health minister, following his own party’s appointment of Cllr Sally Pattle as mental health spokesperson.
Good afternoon Conference! And thank you Yi-Pei for your kind introduction. It’s great to be here in Dundee, with you all - my first in-person party conference speech since becoming Federal Party Leader in 2020!
Responding to the news that the EIS, Scotland’s largest teaching union, have voted to accept a pay offer which will end long-running school strikes, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
