Skye MSP to host meetings in bid to find solutions for island’s tourism infrastructure problems

Next month the first of a series of meetings will take place as part of an ongoing process to identify and find solutions to the pressures on the Isle of Skye caused by increases in tourism on the island.

Badenoch MSP to welcome water petitioners to Parliament

Badenoch MSP Kate Forbes is set to welcome campaigners, who are concerned about the water supply in part of the Highlands, to the Scottish Parliament next week. 

Minimum Landing Sizes for west coast lobsters now on agenda at Cabinet Secretary's meeting with fishermen

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Fergus Ewing is set to meet with fishermen next week and has assured Skye MSP Kate Forbes that minimum landing sizes (MLS) for lobsters will be on the agenda, after she raised the changes to MLS in the Holyrood chamber.

Kate Forbes MSP to raise west coast lobster landing size disparity at Holyrood

Kate Forbes MSP will ask Fergus Ewing, the Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy, to meet fishermen from Skye after it was revealed that new minimum landing sizes (MLS) for lobsters will result in a disparity between the west and east coasts.

Highland MSP’s concern following ‘wall of silence’ from internet supplier

The MSP for Dingwall and the Black Isle has written to the Scottish Government after an internet supplier to Highland communities stopped answering correspondence.