All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
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.
Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Skye and West-Ross-shire, Angus MacDonald, has today (Wednesday 2nd April) launched a comprehensive report on the social care crisis in the Highlands, which calls on the Scottish Government to invest in new care homes ac
Following a series of new statistics revealing failing performance on breast cancer care, more people stuck in hospital and long waits at A&E, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that the SNP has completely run out of id
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today demanded the Scottish Government get serious about providing transparency on sewage as new annual statistics provided data on fewer overflows than before.
Responding to the publication of the Scottish Government’s NHS Operational Improvement Plan, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Ahead of the Scottish Liberal Democrats' conference in Inverness, deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain MP has today set out proposals to create a Young Carers’ Lead in every school who can provide practical support to help young carers balance education and ca
Scottish Liberal Democrats today said teachers deserve to know that the government “has their back” after a new survey from the NASUWT showed that female teachers are more likely to be physically attacked by pupils than their male colleagues.
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