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.
As new Public Health Scotland statistics show thousands still languishing in Scottish hospitals due to delayed discharges remaining stubbornly high, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has urged the Scottish Government to scrap their “ill-fated ministerial takeover of social care.”
Responding to new figures showing that only 64.5% of patients attending A&E were seen within the four-hour target time, with just 41.4% seen on time in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to an opinion poll commissioned by BBC Scotland showing that one in five people said they or a family member had paid for private healthcare in the past twelve months, and that three quarters of them would have preferred to use the NHS, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Speaking after the first week of SNP hustings and the appearance of candidates on The Sunday Show and Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesperson for connectivity Beatrice Wishart MSP has today revealed that 300,000 young people are still missing out on bus passes despite the Scottish Government spending more than £1 million on a national marketing campaign to promote free bus travel for under 22s.
As new statistics show that across Scotland in 2022 people spent just under 2,000 years waiting to be discharged, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has called on the SNP leadership contenders to scrap the National Care Service if elected as First Minister.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
