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.
Scottish Liberal Democrats will lead a debate in the Scottish Parliament today about the current crisis in NHS dentistry and will call on the government to undertake immediate reform of funding structures to boost the number of dentists and enable people to be seen.
Willie Rennie responds to this afternoon’s education statement in the Scottish Parliament by Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.
Liam McArthur responds to the news that the number of police officers is at its lowest level since December 2008.
The Government is likely to spend an estimated £60 million of taxpayers’ money as it sets up four new Departments.
Responding to new figures showing that during December 2022, only 62.1% of patients in Scotland's A&E departments were seen within the four-hour target time, which is the lowest monthly figure on record, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton has called on the SNP/Green Government to “wake up and smell the coffee” on the emergency care crisis.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on Humza Yousaf to “get a grip of this crisis”, after new Liberal Democrat analysis revealed that 373,235 operations have been lost since the pandemic first began, yet another indication that the Cabinet Secretary’s recovery plan is failing.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
