All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The Chancellor’s decision to introduce a new 3p-a-mile charge for electric cars from 2028 will leave rural Scotland worst hit, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have warned.
For fans to watch Scotland’s World Cup games, an MSP hopeful is calling for fan parks to be set up across the country and for pubs to get special dispensation to show late-scheduled Scotland games.
An emergency 5% VAT cut for pubs, restaurants and other hospitality businesses should be introduced in the upcoming Budget to drive growth for high streets and rural businesses alike and slash prices for hard-pressed families, an MSP hopeful has said.
The Scottish Government has today agreed to back a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment in Holyrood calling for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
Almost 40,000 days of staff time for nurses and midwives have been lost across NHS Highland over the last five years due to a growing mental health crisis, the Highland Liberal Democrats have said.
The Scottish Government is being urged to urgently step in to find a replacement for lifeline services from Wick airport in response to Eastern Airways facing administration.
A new report from Angus MacDonald MP, the Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, warns that any move by Prime Minister Andy Burnham to push power closer to local communities in Scotland must reckon with the distinct and worsening cos
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton today called for Scottish Government plans to open 20 more GP walk-in centres to be paused immediately, after it was revealed some of the first centres are seeing as few as three patients per day.
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has called on the SNP government to “change direction" as new figures revealed that there are over 760,000 waits for treatment across the NHS, including thousands of waits lasting more than a y
Responding to new figures that show, 9,601 people were waiting to receive a social care package or to be assessed for one at the beginning of July, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Skye Lochaber and Badenoch and rural affairs spokesperson Andrew Baxter has today said he will convene a cross-party summit to examine fresh measures for preventing and responding to wildfires and to learn from the fire i
Ex-leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and former Deputy First Minister Lord Nicol Stephen, a fellow Aberdonian, said:
Liberal Democrats have passed bold new policy to put public health at the heart of gambling regulation. These reforms would save lives, raise hundreds of millions for NHS treatment, and finally hold the industry to account.
Until the Government treats this crisis with the urgency and seriousness it demands, nothing will change and the vulnerable people caught in the system will continue to suffer.
Sky-high energy bills are a massive problem for families, pensioners and businesses across the UK.
We can’t turn a blind eye to the devastation across the Occupied Territories if we want to achieve a permanent peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
Why we opposed the Government’s welfare bill
77 years ago today, the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Essex - marking the beginning of the Windrush generation’s arrival here in the UK.