All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
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.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today challenged the First Minister on a sharp rise in sexual crime, as he called on the Scottish Government to end their delays to the implementation of key domestic abuse protections.
The Scottish Parliament has today backed a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment which calls on the Scottish Government to publish a long-term strategy for achieving a sustainable prison population.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has written to Europcar to challenge their “bizarre” policy of treating people from UK islands (including Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight) as “overseas customers”, and
Scottish Liberal Democrat education and children spokesperson Duncan Dunlop MSP has today said that the SNP need to do better for care-experienced children, as new figures show worryingly lower rates of attendance, attainment and positive leaver destinati
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Yi-pei Chou Turvey MSP has today said the SNP must urgently step up support for Scotland’s justice system as new figures revealed that sexual crime is at its highest level since 1971.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Edinburgh Northern Sanne Dijkstra-Downie has today challenged the First Minister over action to tackle violence in schools as a new report revealed the number of violent incidents soaring in the capital.
Almost 2,000 water users reported being ill last year afters swimming and surfing - nearly triple the number on previous years
Boris Johnson was never fit to be Prime Minister. He should reap no benefits, in money or in honours, for the disgraceful way he behaved in office.
Today is an important opportunity to remember those who have lost their lives to transphobia, and reflect on how we as a society can end this loss of life.
As Liberal Democrats, we have always stood in support of a lasting peace and a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine.
It is vital that we stand up against all forms of Islamophobia, and work together to end religious hatred everywhere.
Employees should not have to wait any longer for safe and respectful workplaces.