Big-hearted Highlanders are being urged to get behind a crowdfunding plea for a purpose-built pod so that a terminally-ill child – who is now completely blind and can only say ‘mummy’ – can remain at his family home near Inverness.
Big-hearted Highlanders are being urged to get behind a crowdfunding plea for a purpose-built pod so that a terminally-ill child – who is now completely blind and can only say ‘mummy’ – can remain at his family home near Inverness.
Kate Forbes MSP has urged community groups across the Highlands to consider applying for Scottish Government funding aimed at helping rural communities deal with increased tourism.
Patients from the Isle of Skye will soon be able to receive treatment for kidney dialysis locally after the chief executive of NHS Highland confirmed to Kate Forbes MSP the service will start in the next six months.
The constituency MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch has urged Highlanders to register their electrical items as part of Electrical Safety First’s new ‘Do It Now’ campaign.
Kate Forbes MSP has welcomed confirmation from the Scottish Government that a significant proportion of convergence funding – owed to Scottish farmers by the UK Government – will go to those farming and crofting in marginal and remote areas.