All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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.
Conference, there was a time when I would set my alarm for 5am. It was the winter of 2014. The strain of coalition had seen off so many of our activists that each morning I would need to get 3 bundles of leaflets out before I packed my kids off to school.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will use his speech to the party’s Autumn Conference to say that Scotland’s rural communities need a fair deal, after years of always being stuck at the back of the queue.
Responding to the news that Harland and Wolff is set to go into administration, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today warned that action is needed to upgrade Scotland’s sewage network as he revealed that more than 1 in 5 of the country’s discharge points are graded “unsatisfactory”.
Responding to John Swinney's embargoed comments on independence, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Today (Saturday 14th September), Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain MP will open the party’s conference with a call for the new government to focus on saving health and social care services, as she says this will be her party’s top priority in
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.