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 the news that an improved pay offer will be put to teachers and that strike action will be suspended, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today criticised the SNP’s handling of vocational education and urged them to look to Germany to learn lessons for how to deliver training and education in key areas.
Speaking tens years on from the Police Scotland merger, Scottish Liberal Democrat and Shetland MSP, Beatrice Wishart, has raised rural police practices with the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Keith Brown MSP.
Speaking during a parliamentary debate marking Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Scottish Liberal Democrat Beatrice Wishart MSP has today called on the Scottish Government to scrap plans for calorie counts on the menus of Scottish eateries.
Speaking during First Minister’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP criticised Nicola Sturgeon for ploughing ahead with the botched Deposit Return Scheme and described it as, “a moment of real jeopardy.”
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today called on the Scottish Government to match commitments to increase the research budget of English universities by more than a third over the next three years.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
