Threat from ticks
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.
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 Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur has today (Wednesday 25th September) marked 1,000 days since the prison suicide strategy expired by unveiling research that shows that in the last three years there have been more than 2.300 sel
Scottish Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today urged the SNP Government to urgently act on the social care crisis as he raised the issue of care home closures in the Highlands with the Heath Secretary in the Scottish Parliament.
Responding to the confirmation that GB Energy will be headquartered in Aberdeen, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat housing spokesperson Paul McGarry has today called on the SNP government to urgently combat homelessness across the country, after official figures published today show that the numbers of people experiencing homelessness and liv
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the Health Secretary, Neil Gray, to wake up to the crisis in our NHS, as figures published today show poor cancer waiting times performance against the 62-day referral to treatmen
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has warned that efforts to deliver a smoke-free Scotland are falling short as new figures released today showed that NHS Scotland Stop Smoking services only achieved 74% of th
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.