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All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.

Threat from ticks
Angus MacDonald

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.

AMD
4 Jul 2023
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Angus MacDonald

Corran Ferry, electric proposal

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.

AMD
4 Jul 2023
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Angus MacDonald

A Rum deal

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?

AMD
4 Jul 2023
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Scottish News

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP

14 fire stations with dangerous concrete

Responding to comments made this morning by Ross Haggart, Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, at the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee, where he stated that since 2019 the service has been made aware of 14 fire stations w

13 Sep 2023
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Willie Rennie MSP

Delays are holding back Scottish education reform

Responding to SQA Chief Executive Fiona Robertson's comments to the Scottish Parliament education committee in which she warned that the organisation had lost good people when the government delayed for 6 months any decision on compulsory redundancies and

13 Sep 2023
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Liam McArthur MSP

Lowest level of firefighters in a decade

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has urged the SNP/Green Government to act now to tackle the steady decline in firefighters, after new figures revealed that the number of firefighters has dropped to its lowest level in the

13 Sep 2023
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Liam McArthur MSP

McArthur comments on embargoed HMIPS report

Responding to the embargoed annual report from HM Chief Inspector of Prisons which warns of major concerns over prisons regularly operating above their design capacity, antiquated Victorian prison establishments that breach human rights guidelines, and st

13 Sep 2023
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UK News

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