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.
Responding to comments made by former SNP infrastructure and capital investment secretary, Alex Neil, who stated that it is “utter rubbish” for the SNP government to claim that the initial 2025 target for dualling the A9 was “aspirational,” Scottish Liber
Responding to the findings of the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) Assurance Review, which revealed that some Police Scotland officers have not been vetted since they started their careers and that there is no easily identifiable requir
Responding to Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville telling a Scottish Parliament Committee that there is not yet a final cost for work needed to make collapse-prone concrete in Scottish buildings safe and insisting that people should not worry
Responding to figures from Public Health Scotland and Cancer Research UK which show that the number of cancer cases is predicted to rise by 22%, with the average number of cases per year expected to rise to 42,000 by 2038-40, Scottish Liberal Democrat lea
Responding to new Public Health Scotland figures published today which show that more than 1,800 people were stuck in hospital in August 2023 due to a delayed discharge, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to Public Health Scotland figures published today which show that the number of planned operations was lower than pre-pandemic levels, with 7.2% fewer operations planned in August 2023 than were planned in August 2019, Scottish Liberal Democrat
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.