All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
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?
Responding to Fergus Ewing’s announcement that he won’t stand for the SNP in 2026, Scottish Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald, who represents Inverness after beating the SNP at the general election, said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today questioned the First Minister about shocking rates of school violence as new research by his party revealed that there have been over 24,000 violent incidents reported in schools already in
Responding to the UK Government voting to reject a Liberal Democrat amendment which would have exempted health and care providers from the national insurance rise, Liberal Democrat Scottish affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine MP said:
Responding to the evidence session at the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee, during which the interim principal of Dundee University admitted there has been ‘incompetence’ at the top of the institution, as MSPs heard it could run out of cash by th
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that visits to Skye House, Scotland's biggest children's psychiatric hospital, appear to have ‘skimmed the surface’.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today criticised the Scottish Government for failing to complete a promised review of safeguarding in relation to elected representatives and their access to vulnerable groups. It committed to the re
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