All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Jamie Stone MP and Highlands Westminster Candidate, Angus MacDonald.
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 new figures showing only 62.7% of people attending A&E were seen within the 4 hour target in the week ending 31st March, while 3,455 people waited over 8 hours and 1,447 waited over 12 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spoke
Responding to the embargoed 1919 magazine story in which the Scottish Police Federation warn that police officer cutbacks and a decline in community policing leaves Scotland open to organised crime, extremism and terrorism, Scottish Liberal Democrat justi
Scottish Liberal Democrat communities spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today revealed the collapse in the number of public toilets since the SNP came to power, with at least one local authority having no toilet facilities at all and others having no sta
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today urged the SNP/Green government to publish a plan to increase time for education and training within prisons as his party uncovered worrying drops in these opportunities across vari
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton has today questioned why the Scottish Government is not doing more to rebuild a key screening programme to protect against potentially fatal aneurysms after new figures revealed that the num
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today criticised the Scottish Government for doing next to nothing to promote teaching as a career after analysis by his party found that the number of English teachers has fallen by 1
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.
We will continue to protect the rights of vulnerable people in the UK and around the world against these deplorable Conservative attacks.
In her speech, Wendy called for taxpayer-funded handouts for disgraced former ministers to be scrapped, as analysis reveals £530,000 was paid out in ministerial severance payments over the past year.
The Liberal Democrats are steadfast in our commitment to supporting Ukraine, isolating Russia, and upholding the values of justice and accountability. We stand with President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people.
