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 the announcement that the SNP Government will extend the pause on NHS building projects until the Scottish Budget at the end of the year, further delaying the revised NHS infrastructure plan that was originally supposed to be unveiled in the
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today reiterated his call for the survivors of alleged abuse at Fornethy House to be allowed access to the Scottish Government’s compensation scheme for those abused while in residential care.
Responding to Health Secretary Neil Gray's re-announcement of £30m worth of targeted funding for the NHS, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Responding to a new Scottish Human Rights Commission report which found 83% of previous recommendations given by human rights bodies to Scottish prisons have yet to be implemented and little-to-no progress has been made in the last decade, and to Angela C
Wendy Chamberlain MP for North East Fife yesterday wrote to the Scottish Secretary of State asking for a meeting to discuss transport infrastructure for Scotland.
Responding to the embargoed report from the Accounts Commission which warns that community health and social care faces rising unmet need, Integrated Joint Board funding decreased in real terms, vacancies are at a record high and that a quarter of staff l
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
