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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’.


Police Scotland issue appeal after a crash on the A939 Grantown-Nairn road left a motorcyclist with ‘serious injuries’

28 July 2024
Police Scotland issue appeal after a crash on the A939 Grantown-Nairn road left a motorcyclist with ‘serious injuries’

Police Scotland issue appeal after a crash on the A939 Grantown-Nairn road left a motorcyclist with ‘serious injuries’

28 July 2024

The road had to be closed for almost 10 hours to allow for crash scene investigations to be completed.


Passengers are warned of ‘major’ disruption on Scotrail trains between Inverness and Edinburgh/Glasgow today

28 July 2024
Passengers are warned of ‘major’ disruption on Scotrail trains between Inverness and Edinburgh/Glasgow today

Passengers are warned of ‘major’ disruption on Scotrail trains between Inverness and Edinburgh/Glasgow today

28 July 2024

Services have been cancelled and rerouted via Aberdeen adding hours to journey times.


Woman airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in a ‘serious’ condition after A9 crash involving a car, a lorry and a bus

27 July 2024
Woman airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in a ‘serious’ condition after A9 crash involving a car, a lorry and a bus

Woman airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in a ‘serious’ condition after A9 crash involving a car, a lorry and a bus

27 July 2024

Three others were also taken to hospital with one man in ‘stable’ condition while two others were checked over following the crash last evening


Meet the new owner of Inverness Caley Thistle…

26 July 2024
Meet the new owner of Inverness Caley Thistle…

Meet the new owner of Inverness Caley Thistle…

26 July 2024

Lifelong Liverpool fan is not a typical football club owner going by his public social media posts


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 ‘stripped back and gutted’ by centralisation

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

WATCH: Jamie Stone says Highland healthcare ‘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’.


Number of drivers busted speeding on the A9 quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 hitting 13,322

17 July 2024
Number of drivers busted speeding on the A9 quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 hitting 13,322

Number of drivers busted speeding on the A9 quadrupled between 2022 and 2023 hitting 13,322

17 July 2024

Campaigner Laura Hansler says it is ‘absolutely inexcusable’ that the highest recorded speed was 140 mph.


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 Highlands win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ and determined to make north heard

08 July 2024
Double Highlands win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ and determined to make north heard

Double Highlands win leaves Liberal Democrats ‘elated’ and determined to make north heard

08 July 2024

Reaction from party after pulling off shock win in Inverness seat


PICTURES: How the count chaos night unfolded as political rivals were forced to accept recount

05 July 2024
PICTURES: How the count chaos night unfolded as political rivals were forced to accept recount

PICTURES: How the count chaos night unfolded as political rivals were forced to accept recount

05 July 2024

Candidates and supporters at count showed how to behave in testing circumstances on long night


Drew Hendry will not be attending tomorrow’s recount for new Inverness seat

05 July 2024
Drew Hendry will not be attending tomorrow’s recount for new Inverness seat

Drew Hendry will not be attending tomorrow’s recount for new Inverness seat

05 July 2024

It is understood he and his family are travelling to London


Liberal Democrat candidate privately acknowledged as likely winner of Inverness seat

05 July 2024
Liberal Democrat candidate privately acknowledged as likely winner of Inverness seat

Liberal Democrat candidate privately acknowledged as likely winner of Inverness seat

05 July 2024

But the botched ballot count means second recount tomorrow


Chaos hits Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire as count abandoned until tomorrow morning

05 July 2024
Chaos hits Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire as count abandoned until tomorrow morning

Chaos hits Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire as count abandoned until tomorrow morning

05 July 2024

‘Discrepancy’ between verified and provisional total votes can not be reconciled


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

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

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

05 July 2024

Deputy First Minister says economic growth has to be put at front and centre of policies


UK general election 2024: Polls open in the Highlands in the most competitive races for year

04 July 2024
UK general election 2024: Polls open in the Highlands in the most competitive races for year

UK general election 2024: Polls open in the Highlands in the most competitive races for year

04 July 2024

Voters will choose the next MPs for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seats.


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