Politics

That’s the fear after Police Scotland’s chief warned the force will need to review officer recruitment to meet rising National Insurance costs.

The SNP MP says ‘people who can see excess energy being generated from their gardens should not be paying more to heat their homes’.

LibDem MP warns costs are fuelling the Highlands having the second highest fuel poverty rate in the UK.

MP Angus MacDonald hails ‘very positive step’ as Labour energy minister Michael Shanks says region is ‘doing a favour for the rest of the country’.

A petition urging the government to publish a timeline for works on the A96 dualling between Inverness and Nairn will be heard in parliament.

People in the Highlands and Moray are being encouraged to respond to a public consultation on the dualling for the A96 before it closes this week.

The MP for Nairnshire has called for essential support to the Scotch whisky industry at Westminster earlier this week.

So is the party about to shoot itself in the foot and make Inverness and Nairn competitive over the outspoken Highland MSP?

Perhaps it’s time in Scotland for the main parties to come together to work together on the very difficult problems now facing us.

Child poverty rates in the Highlands remain unacceptably high, says an MSP as a children’s charity prepares to open a new building in the region.

Our columnist Colin Campbell meets our MP Angus MacDonald.

The administration argues the rise is needed to fund maintenance, repairs, and debt.

Nairnshire councillors agreed to a proposed rent increase for garage units 2025/26, which are set to go up by 20 per cent.

An SNP MP representing a key whisky-producing area has secured a Westminster debate on Government support for the Scotch Whisky industry.

A proposal to merge Nairn’s two community councils into one has divided opinion in the community.

The response cites ‘significant length of national speed limit road network and remoteness’ of the area.

The meeting will decide whether to cut council house rent rises from 8% to 6% at the expense of measures to save tenants money on heating bills.

Tourism levy plans are “genuinely scaring small businesses”, a Highland MSP has warned.

Councillors questioned whether a draft three-year plan to implement the changes was “achievable”.

Those of us who are at a fairly advanced age are liable to take much more interest in the assisted dying issue than younger folk, says our columnist.