Politics

An exciting future is in store for Caithness and Sutherland after the Flow Country peatlands were designated as a World Heritage Site on Friday.

Unesco World Heritage Site status for the Flow Country will unlock a raft of economic, environmental and social opportunities, it has been predicted.

The Highlands is set to miss out on the chance of becoming home to a new UK public energy company, according to reports.

Far north MP Jamie Stone has blamed the SNP for a “continuous decline in education standards”, even though teachers are doing “their level best”.

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

Holyrood Notebook by Edward Mountain

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

Highland Council has said an analysis that ranks it as the worst local authority in Scotland ‘does not reflect the true picture of Highland’.

Highland MSP Rhoda Grant has backed calls for GB Energy to be based in the Highlands.

Far north MP Jamie Stone had added to calls for the UK government to scrap the two-child limit on some benefit payments.

Jamie Stone MP signed a Parliamentary motion calling for the new Government to honour the recommendations of the ombudsman concerning WASPI women

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

Deputy First Minster Kate Forbes has spoken about her experience with postnatal depression on the new series of the podcast, Speaking of Suicide.

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’.

Holyrood Notebook by Maree Todd

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

Scottish Green MSP Ariane Burgess marked World Population Day by focusing on the challenges of rural depopulation in the Highlands.

Jamie Stone, newly re-elected MP for Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross, has sworn into the House of Commons this morning.

A Conservative with strong Highland connections is reportedly considering a bid for the party's soon to be vacant Scottish leadership post.

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