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 the news that the Scottish Government-owned Ferguson shipyard has missed out on a contract to build two small ferries for the River Clyde, just a month after missing out on another order for seven all-electric ferries for Caledonian MacBrayn
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today accused the First Minister of lacking passion in his government’s handling of education as he criticised the failure to recruit teachers for key subjects like Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Biology
Responding to the news that around 350 staff at the University of Edinburgh have accepted voluntary redundancy, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today responded to news that he has been banned from travelling to Russia in the latest sanctions list, calling it a “point of pride”. Mr Carmichael said he was only surprised the ban had not come sooner, a
Speaking after attending the democracy summit organised by the First Minister, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Speaking ahead of the cross-party summit being convened by the First Minister, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.