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 Jenny Gilruth's interview on Good Morning Scotland earlier and her comments downgrading Scottish Government commitments to close the attainment gap, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to Stephen Flynn’s appearance on BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland, where he revealed that he was only told about the resignation of SNP auditors in February, two months after he was appointed the party’s Westminster leader and two months after
Liberal Democrat Scotland Spokesperson Christine Jardine has written to the Chair of the Office for the Internal Market to assess the process for a dispute resolution over the implementation of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in Scotland.
Liam McArthur MSP has today slammed the Scottish Government for their failure to deliver a replacement for the Erasmus student exchange scheme.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today warned the Scottish Government about its use of technology that could infringe on security and privacy as he revealed that the government has spent more than £338,000 to date on the social
Liberal Democrat Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has today offered “a dram of whisky and a fish supper” to anyone who can track down Scottish Conservative MPs missing in action while distillers and fishermen suffer.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
