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 MSP has highlighted that the Scottish Government have lodged more than 500 amendments to their Legal Services Bill, as he criticised ministers' handling of the modernisation of the legal profess
Responding to John Swinney's speech this morning, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
After new research by his party revealed that almost 1 in 5 senior mental health roles are either vacant or being filled by locums, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has urged the SNP to get serious about staffing to tackle Scotland’
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today written to the Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay to ask whether he agrees with Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch’s comments in which she said that she would look at means testing the
Wendy Chamberlain, MP for North East Fife, will have the second reading of her Bill to remove the outdated caps on charity lottery fundraising on Friday [24th January 2025].
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament as the SNP Government announced that they are scrapping their planned centralisation of social care services, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Employees should not have to wait any longer for safe and respectful workplaces.
Rishi Sunak’s speech was so out of touch he may as well have been living on another planet.
Watch or read Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey's speech to Autumn Conference.
Hear from Councillor Lisa Smart, Liberal Democrat Candidate for Hazel Grove.
Liberal Democrats are calling for meaningful action to reverse the decline in our natural environment.
All children deserve to be properly supported by their parents. Child maintenance payments are vital for the well-being of children. Liberal Democrats will keep campaigning to reform the Child Maintenance Service so it works for children.
