Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Angus MacDonald
Care Home Crisis
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
What more difficult business area can there be in Scotland right now than hospitality in the Highlands?
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
General News and Press Releases
McArthur comments on Orkney Islands Council motion
Responding to the news that Orkney Islands Council have passed a motion looking into ‘alternative models of governance’, Orkney MSP Liam McArthur said:
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
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.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
Kinloch Castle buyer driven off
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.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
Corran Ferry, electric proposal
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.
AMD
4 Jul 2023