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 education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today said that it could take the SNP 113 years to close the attainment gap following new statistics which revealed how little progress the government has made in improving outcomes fo
Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP has said the SNP Government have let down at-risk communities after it was announced that less than half of flood defence schemes due by 2021 have been completed.
Responding to the news that for the third year in a row the number of places on nursing courses has not been filled, with the Royal College of Nursing warning that Scotland does not have the number of nurses it needs to meet health and social care demands
Responding to Scottish Water's announcement that it has installed 1,000 event duration monitors at sewage overflows, with plans for a further 700 by the end of next year, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has highlighted that these insta
After months of issuing threats to councils that the government would punish them by withholding £145million if they didn’t protect teacher numbers, the Education Secretary has instead released all the funds even though teacher numbers are down by 621.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that the SNP government must overhaul their botched NHS Recovery Plan after a new workforce survey found that the number of GPs continues to drop.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.