All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
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.
Responding to the SNP government’s announcement about the national education agency, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton and deputy leader Wendy Chamberlain have today said the SNP Government is "neck-deep in failure" as they launched their party’s plans to clamp down on sewage dumping in Scotland's rivers during a campaig
Responding to analysis by Transport Scotland that there is no currently “no strong evidence” that the Scottish Government pilot scrapping peak rail fares has been effective, Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Daniel O’Malley said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on there to be action to resolve the “ever deepening crisis in mental health treatment” after new figures revealed that the referral to treatment target for child and adolescent mental health a
Responding to new figures showing that just 67.4% of people attending A&E were seen within the 4-hour target in April, with 11.7% waiting more than 8 hours and 5.2% patients waiting more than 12 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesper
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has put health at the centre of his party’s plans to grow the economy during a visit to an Edinburgh hairdresser today.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
