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 spokesperson for young people Duncan Dunlop MSP has today said that it is time to fix the SNP’s broken Promise, as new figures revealed that children in care are twice as likely to have a disability compared to those in a househo
Responding to the Scottish FA joining the unanimous UEFA boycott of any FIFA competition for so long as the organisation plans to sell-off the World Cup, Scottish Liberal Democrat David Green MSP said:
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.
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 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
We need politicians who genuinely care – ready to put in the graft and capable of taking the political initiative. No-one can possibly still believe the UK’s Conservatives are up to this. I am completely convinced the Liberal Democrats are.
As the warmth and glow of the candles grow each evening, I hope it may serve as a reminder that even in the darkness, there is hope. Hope for a brighter tomorrow.
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.