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Highland Council react to being ranked the worst local authority in mainland Scotland

Highland Council react to being ranked the worst local authority in mainland Scotland

Highland Council react to being ranked the worst local authority in mainland Scotland

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


MSP says GB Energy being based in Highlands would ‘right a wrong that has existed for generations’

MSP says GB Energy being based in Highlands would ‘right a wrong that has existed for generations’

MSP says GB Energy being based in Highlands would ‘right a wrong that has existed for generations’

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


Jamie Stone calls for two-child benefits limit to be scrapped in Budget

Jamie Stone calls for two-child benefits limit to be scrapped in Budget

Jamie Stone calls for two-child benefits limit to be scrapped in Budget

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


Stone signs WASPI Parliamentary motion – ‘One WASPI woman dying every 13 minutes,’ claims campaigner

Stone signs WASPI Parliamentary motion – ‘One WASPI woman dying every 13 minutes,’ claims campaigner

Stone signs WASPI Parliamentary motion – ‘One WASPI woman dying every 13 minutes,’ claims campaigner

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


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

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

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 Minister discusses her experience with postnatal depression in candid new podcast series

Deputy First Minister discusses her experience with postnatal depression in candid new podcast series

Deputy First Minister discusses her experience with postnatal depression in candid new podcast series

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


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

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

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’.


MAREE TODD: Time to reflect on difficult election defeat for SNP

MAREE TODD: Time to reflect on difficult election defeat for SNP

MAREE TODD: Time to reflect on difficult election defeat for SNP

Holyrood Notebook by Maree Todd


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

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

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


Highland MSP insists rural depopulation is ‘not inevitable’

Highland MSP insists rural depopulation is ‘not inevitable’

Highland MSP insists rural depopulation is ‘not inevitable’

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


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