All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
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.
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?
North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie has backed calls for an inquiry by the charity regulator OSCR into the conduct of the leadership of the SRUC.
Responding to the University of Dundee publishing its recovery plan amid significant financial turmoil, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
Responding to a new report which shows there were 251 suspected drug deaths between December 2024 and February 2025, an increase of 17% from the previous quarter, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
On Tuesday, Jamie Greene MSP will deliver his first speech in the Scottish Parliament since joining the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and his first since being appointed as the party's economy and finance spokesperson in which he will criticise SNP, Labour
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today appointed Jamie Greene MSP as the party’s economy and finance spokesperson.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Shetland Beatrice Wishart has today revealed the results of an investigation by her party which reveals that more than 10% of Scotland’s piping uses asbestos piping and that more than half of these pipes are now over thei
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The Liberal Democrats are standing up for our NHS, addressing the cost of living crisis, and ensuring everyone gets the support they need.
Time to elect fantastic Liberal Democrat MPs to champion their communities.
Families who remortgaged in 2023 are facing a mortgage bombshell of almost £9bn this year, with commuter belt areas in the Blue Wall hardest hit, new analysis commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
For the first time since 1996 the Liberal Democrats won more seats than the Conservatives in the Local Elections.
Ten years ago today, the UK’s first same-sex marriages took place.
