All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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.
On Saturday 18th October, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will use his speech to his party's autumn conference in Glasgow to say that his party is on the brink of an electoral breakthrough.
At their autumn party conference in Glasgow, Scottish Liberal Democrats are expected to back a motion put forward by deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain which sets out a range of measures to tackle violence against women and girls.
Responding to new figures published in the Daily Record showing that Scotland has Britain’s highest rate of violent injuries to school staff reported to the safety watchdog, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
On Saturday 18th October, Scottish Liberal Democrat conference will debate plans being put forward by West of Scotland MSP Jamie Greene to end the SNP"s ferries fiasco for good.
Angus MacDonald, MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, has called on the UK Government to cut through “bewildering” red tape that has stopped search and rescue helicopters from landing on community helipads in rural areas.
Mid Dunbartonshire MP Susan Murray has today pressed the Prime Minister over the high taxes faced by local business owners in her constituency and in particular the Labour UK Government's decision to increase national insurance.
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.