Holyrood Notebook by Maree Todd
Highland MSP Rhoda Grant has backed calls for GB Energy to be based in the Highlands.
From the moment the shots were fired I struggled to comprehend what I was seeing, said our columnist.
Single mum-of-one Lauren Johnstone, from Fortrose was unable to return to full-time work due to not being able to access childcare.
In the first adjournment debate of new the parliament, he said: ‘17 years of centralisation has wreaked havoc on my part of the world’.
Deputy First Minster Kate Forbes has spoken about her experience with postnatal depression on the new series of the podcast, Speaking of Suicide.
Campaigner Laura Hansler says it is ‘absolutely inexcusable’ that the highest recorded speed was 140 mph.
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’.
He says he has heard ‘horror stories’ but ‘there is not the wit or willpower in the Scottish Government’.
The Scottish Government wants to appoint two new land commissioners and a new tenant farming commissioner to join the Scottish Land Commission board.