All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
I have been a Highland Councillor for eight months now and am really enjoying it, learning about issues at schools, roads, the local economy and care sector, amongst many other subjects.
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.
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Yi-pei Chou Turvey MSP has today warned SNP ministers about the “domino effect” of a forecasted increase in trial waiting times for those accused of the most serious crimes.
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has urged the SNP government to listen to his party’s calls to roll out a lung cancer screening programme and undertake a further series of measures to boost cancer survival rates as new figure
Responding to reports that the Ferguson shipyard is to cut a quarter of its workforce, Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to new figures showing only 62.9% of people attending A&E seen within the 4-hour target in the week ending 9th August, while 3,468 people waited over 8 hours and 1,331 waited over 12 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Har
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley has today called on the Scottish Government to finally publish data into patients being treated in hospital corridors as he warned that hiding from the problem would not make it go away.
Scottish Liberal Democrats have today warned that the state of Scotland’s fire and rescue service is putting communities at risk.
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.