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 Democrats have called on Jeremy Hunt to reverse the £3bn of tax cuts being given to banks this year, and use the money to help struggling homeowners at risk of losing their homes.
Responding to reports that the Home Office intends to commission the MS Victoria, which has hosted Ukrainians for the past year, to house asylum seekers, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and Edinburgh Western MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
During First Minister's Questions this afternoon, Scottish Liberal Democrat and MSP for Shetland, Beatrice Wishart, quizzed Humza Yousaf as to why Shetlanders must put up with the inability to book ferry travel beyond 30th September, following Transport S
Christine Jardine MP has today hit out at Scottish Conservative MPs for refusing to back a bill to end puppy smuggling, pet theft and live animal exports in the UK.
Speaking as the Royal Highland Show gets underway in Edinburgh, Scottish Liberal Democrat agriculture spokesperson Cllr Claire McLaren highlighted the party’s plans to grow Scottish agriculture and make the party the voice of rural Scotland.
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today called for answers on what will happen to the £9 million loaned by the government-backed Scottish National Investment Bank to Circularity Scotland, following the news that the firm
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.