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GET STARTED Click for a £1.99 subscription. Use the code SUMMERHighland 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’.
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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.