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 leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today urged the Scottish Government to pull their heads out of the sand and explain what action they will take to tackle dangerous concrete in schools.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today called for sports funding to be spread across the country as they revealed that some local authorities have not seen a single direct investment in club sport from Sport Scotland for at least a decade.
Responding to reports in The Guardian which say the UK Government has told schools in England to immediately shut buildings made with aerated concrete until safety work is undertaken, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie has today written to the minister for parliamentary business calling for a ministerial statement on disgraced NHS Tayside surgeon Sam Eljamel.
Responding to the concerns of six community councils, published in the Ferret, about how the continued disruption to the Corran ferry is leaving residents with “no alternative but to move out of the area,” as they cited the “drastic impact” of the disrupt
Ahead of Parliament returning next week, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on ministers to deliver a statement to MSPs addressing the presence of dangerous concrete in public sector buildings and committing to a national
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
