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.
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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 leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton has branded the SNP's NHS Recovery Plan a "complete failure" as new analysis from the Scottish Liberal Democrats shows that 2024 was the worst year on record for Scotland's A&E de
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today warned that malicious calls to the Scottish Ambulance Service are putting lives at risk as he revealed that there have been more than 11,000 of these calls over the last decade.
Responding to the determination of a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Katie Allan and William Brown at Polmont Young Offenders Institution in 2018, which found that their deaths could have been avoided but for a ‘catalogue for failures’ in the sy
Liam McArthur MSP has today called for clarity over the scale of job losses in Scotland after BP announced that it is to cut 4,700 jobs and 3,000 contractor roles from its global workforce.
Responding to the embargoed RCN report into overcrowding in Scotland's NHS, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has welcomed the government’s announcement today that the current readiness state for coastguard search-and-rescue helicopters based at Sumburgh in Shetland and Stornaway will be protected at the existing level
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.