Politics

SERVING the local community is new MP Graham’s Leadbitter’s top priority, he said, following a “very intense” first week at Westminster.

Scotland’s forestry contributes £1.1 billion to the economy each year and supports more than 34,000 jobs, a new report has found.

Hs highly motivated campaign team were prepared to go to extraordinary lengths on his behalf over an unprecedented period of time, says our columnist.

Inverness MP Angus McDonald has said he will be encouraging the energy minister to base the GB Energy headquarters in the Highlands.

Highland Council is set to benefit from a funding boost by the Scottish Government to support the growth of the EV charging network.

All political parties will want to see a major improvement in the process when its Scottish Parliament elections, says our columnist.

Angus MacDonald will also regretfully resign as a Highland councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan.

A Conservative with strong Inverness connections is reportedly considering a bid for the party's soon to be vacant Scottish leadership post.

Had he been up against a less formidable, energetic and convincing challenger he might have resisted the anti-SNP tsunami, says our columnist.

Scottish Government is poised to award the construction contract to Balfour Beatty.

Pushing for investment to unlock funding for the dualling of the A96 and other key developments will be a top priority for Nairnshire’s new SNP MP.

Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP Angus MacDonald says how the election was won, in his own words.

Angus MacDonald described the last six weeks as more exhausting and tense than any of the conflict zones he had experienced while in the army.

The showing of Reform UK in Highland constituencies turned a few heads.

The Liberal Democrats’ Angus MacDonald won a major victory in the newly formed Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat.

Meanwhile Liberal Democrats head to London to represent the Highlands with a new UK government in place.

Angus MacDonald says ‘what the Lib Dems got right in the Highlands was to demonstrate that they were there for the people of the Highlands’.

New Lib Dem MP for the Inverness area Angus MacDonald on some hot topics.

The end of one man’s Westminster career and dawn of another’s have sparked wide reaction after Lib-Dem Angus Macdonald defeated the SNP’s Drew Hendry.

Scottish Lib Dems leader Alex Cole-Hamilton hails new MP’s victory.