Threat from ticks
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.
All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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 agriculture spokesperson and lead candidate for Mid Scotland & Fife Claire McLaren has today warned that farmers continue to face the same fundamental problems and warned that the Scottish Government are not doing enough to suppo
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today challenged the government to give a more proportionate share of the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund to Scotland. The fund is being delivered based on proportions of the UK population, with 8% of the f
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP will tomorrow (Thursday 23rd October) visit The Thistle Safer Drug Consumption Facility in Glasgow, where he will set out his party’s plans for combatting the harms caused by drugs and tackling Scotl
Highland Liberal Democrats have today (Thursday 23rd October) highlighted the SNP’s “broken relationship with rural Scotland”, after an embargoed report from the Accounts Commission warned that council cuts to culture and leisure services could harm more
Jamie Stone, MP for Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross, will lead a backbench business debate on devolution in Scotland, scheduled in the House of Commons on Wednesday 22nd October.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today condemned SNP hypocrisy over mandatory digital ID, during a debate on the issue in Parliament.
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.