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Vulnerable children missing out on support due to Highland Council ‘algorithm’

06 September 2024
Vulnerable children missing out on support due to Highland Council ‘algorithm’

Vulnerable children missing out on support due to Highland Council ‘algorithm’

06 September 2024

Parents says additional support is not available where it should be as the focus is now on kids from deprived backgrounds.


Highland’s top cop reveals the team targeting County Lines gangs has been expanded

03 September 2024
Highland’s top cop reveals the team targeting County Lines gangs has been expanded

Highland’s top cop reveals the team targeting County Lines gangs has been expanded

03 September 2024

Chief Superintendent Robert Shepherd says it is intended to create a ‘hostile’ environment for groups from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London.


Highland Council announced series of major promotions to the newly created role of chief officer

30 August 2024
Highland Council announced series of major promotions to the newly created role of chief officer

Highland Council announced series of major promotions to the newly created role of chief officer

30 August 2024

The five new bosses will work in areas like education, care, housing, property and health and social care.


Ex-Caithness Andrew Sinclair leaves Conservative group to join the Highland Alliance

30 August 2024
Ex-Caithness Andrew Sinclair leaves Conservative group to join the Highland Alliance

Ex-Caithness Andrew Sinclair leaves Conservative group to join the Highland Alliance

30 August 2024

He is the third member to leave the Conservative group at Highland Council since the 2022 election.


Highland Council has the highest education vacancy rate in Scotland amid concerns about temporary contracts

30 August 2024
Highland Council has the highest education vacancy rate in Scotland amid concerns about temporary contracts

Highland Council has the highest education vacancy rate in Scotland amid concerns about temporary contracts

30 August 2024

Opposition leader Alasdair Christie says ‘the question must be asked what damage or impact is it having on our children’s education.


Net-zero audit reveals Highland Council’s worst performing buildings for carbon emissions

28 August 2024
Net-zero audit reveals Highland Council’s worst performing buildings for carbon emissions

Net-zero audit reveals Highland Council’s worst performing buildings for carbon emissions

28 August 2024

So far 342 facilities have been screened producing a shortlist of the 40 worst performing buildings for carbon emissions.


MSP says Highland Council sold ‘less than 40’ campervan and motorhome scheme passes

27 August 2024
MSP says Highland Council sold ‘less than 40’ campervan and motorhome scheme passes

MSP says Highland Council sold ‘less than 40’ campervan and motorhome scheme passes

27 August 2024

Edward Mountain says ‘Going into competition with these businesses is madness’.


EXCLUSIVE: Probe into teacher’s ‘inappropriate behaviour’ to teenage girl unearths litany of staff ‘failings’

23 August 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Probe into teacher’s ‘inappropriate behaviour’ to teenage girl unearths litany of staff ‘failings’

EXCLUSIVE: Probe into teacher’s ‘inappropriate behaviour’ to teenage girl unearths litany of staff ‘failings’

23 August 2024

Highland Council upheld complaints concerning two other members of staff, one of whom was described as ‘hostile’ to the teenager.


Holyrood to recognise Flow Country’s Unesco World Heritage Site status

22 August 2024
Holyrood to recognise Flow Country’s Unesco World Heritage Site status

Holyrood to recognise Flow Country’s Unesco World Heritage Site status

22 August 2024

The first Scottish site to be granted World Heritage status purely on the basis of its natural criteria is set to be recognised in parliament.


Highland pensioners could be ‘disproportionately hit’ by Labour’s cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment

30 July 2024
Highland pensioners could be ‘disproportionately hit’ by Labour’s cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment

Highland pensioners could be ‘disproportionately hit’ by Labour’s cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment

30 July 2024

Opposition parties say they are ‘horrified’ by the move warning of the ‘potentially devastating unintended consequences’.


Internal reviews detail litany of failings at NHS Highland over adult social care services and complex care packages

29 July 2024
Internal reviews detail litany of failings at NHS Highland over adult social care services and complex care packages

Internal reviews detail litany of failings at NHS Highland over adult social care services and complex care packages

29 July 2024

Problems include a ‘no documentation or scrutiny of the whole discharge planning’ process and a lack of review leading to ‘significant cost impacts’.


Dozens of caravan parks up in arms as Highland Council undercuts them with ‘unsafe’ motorhome parking scheme

24 July 2024
Dozens of caravan parks up in arms as Highland Council undercuts them with ‘unsafe’ motorhome parking scheme

Dozens of caravan parks up in arms as Highland Council undercuts them with ‘unsafe’ motorhome parking scheme

24 July 2024

Fergus Ewing warns ‘this is unfair to the existing businesses and potentially illegal and unsafe for holiday makers’.


More than 1000 Highlanders are ‘handing over their savings in agony’ to access private dental care

22 July 2024
More than 1000 Highlanders are ‘handing over their savings in agony’ to access private dental care

More than 1000 Highlanders are ‘handing over their savings in agony’ to access private dental care

22 July 2024

Scottish Labour says ‘This is what privatisation looks like – those who can, pay for a private dentist; those who can’t, suffer’


WATCH: Jamie Stone says Highland healthcare has ‘stripped back and gutted’ by centralisation

18 July 2024
WATCH: Jamie Stone says Highland healthcare has ‘stripped back and gutted’ by centralisation

WATCH: Jamie Stone says Highland healthcare has ‘stripped back and gutted’ by centralisation

18 July 2024

In the first adjournment debate of new the parliament, he said: ‘17 years of centralisation has wreaked havoc on my part of the world’.


Energy secretary Ed Miliband invited to consider the Highlands as potential location for Great British Energy HQ

17 July 2024
Energy secretary Ed Miliband invited to consider the Highlands as potential location for Great British Energy HQ

Energy secretary Ed Miliband invited to consider the Highlands as potential location for Great British Energy HQ

17 July 2024

MP Jamie Stone says ‘the Highlands is the biggest generator of clean, green energy in Scotland, and yet we suffer from a lack of job opportunities’.


Highland MP Jamie Stone to lead first adjournment debate of new parliament on rural healthcare access

16 July 2024
Highland MP Jamie Stone to lead first adjournment debate of new parliament on rural healthcare access

Highland MP Jamie Stone to lead first adjournment debate of new parliament on rural healthcare access

16 July 2024

He says he has heard ‘horror stories’ but ‘there is not the wit or willpower in the Scottish Government’.


POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: Continuity has not cut it as civil wars break out in the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives

08 July 2024
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: Continuity has not cut it as civil wars break out in the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: Continuity has not cut it as civil wars break out in the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives

08 July 2024

Meanwhile Liberal Democrats head to London to represent the Highlands with a new UK government in place.


Double Highland win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ but determined to make the north heard

07 July 2024
Double Highland win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ but determined to make the north heard

Double Highland win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ but determined to make the north heard

07 July 2024

Jamie Stone intends to ‘get the health service right, let's get education right – these things matter and people were telling me that’.


Kate Forbes says the SNP needs to ‘rebuild and regain the trust of the electorate’ after a ‘difficult night’

05 July 2024
Kate Forbes says the SNP needs to ‘rebuild and regain the trust of the electorate’ after a ‘difficult night’

Kate Forbes says the SNP needs to ‘rebuild and regain the trust of the electorate’ after a ‘difficult night’

05 July 2024

Deputy First Minister says with two years before the Holyrood elections the SNP must ‘ensure we can demonstrate delivery, implementation and change’.


BREAKING: Lib Dems’ Jamie Stone wins the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross seat

05 July 2024
BREAKING: Lib Dems’ Jamie Stone wins the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross seat

BREAKING: Lib Dems’ Jamie Stone wins the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross seat

05 July 2024

It is another seat for the Lib Dems who are enjoying a good night with the party expected to get more than 50 seats.


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