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 Green Minister Lorna Slater telling Good Morning Scotland that the Scottish Government will press ahead with its deposit return scheme, in the face of dire warnings from many businesses, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesperson for the climate crisis Liam McArthur MSP has today accused the Scottish Government’s Mobility and Scrappage Fund of being "woefully unambitious," highlighting that the scheme will only lead to the scrapping of around 300 cars and calling on the government to move further and faster in encouraging the transition to greener travel.
Scottish Liberal Democrats leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has accused the Scottish Government of leaving “patients in pain”, as new Public Health Scotland figures revealed that the number of GPs working for Primary Care Out of Hours services had dropped by more than a fifth since 2019.
Responding to new figures showing that only 45.2% of patients who went to the A&E department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh were seen within the four-hour target time, and waits worsening across the country, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has called on the SNP/Green Government to “stop clutching onto a failing recovery plan”.
Responding to the news that there has been a 13% increase in the number of nurses who left the Nursing and Midwifery Council register in the 12 months up to September 2022, with 2,690 nurses leaving the profession in that time, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to industry experts telling The Sunday Show that the SNP and Green Government-devised deposit return scheme (DRS) is “impossible” to introduce in August, with ministers refusing to appear to defend the scheme, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
