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.
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has confirmed that his party will vote against the budget.
Responding to new figures showing that only 67.9% of patients attending A&E were seen within the four-hour target time, with just 43% seen on time in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
As the number of probationary teachers offered full-time jobs in the state sector falls, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has condemned Nicola Sturgeon’s record on education and called on the next First Minister to repair the core problems faced by the profession.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today urged the Scottish government to launch a nationwide emergency insulation programme as he revealed that this Scottish budget makes no more meaningful provision than the last to bring down soaring energy bills.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has challenged would-be SNP leadership contenders to look crisis-hit public services and families in the eye and recognise the harm that “relentless navel-gazing on independence” is causing.
Addressing campaigners during an action day for the Corstorphine/Murrayfield by-election, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will say that “the time for liberal politics is now,” as he emphasised the need to end the clash of nationalisms holding Scotland back and highlighted his party’s recent successes in challenging the SNP and Conservatives.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
