Far too often the approach of Scotland's SNP government, its state-owned water company and its light touch regulator is that Scotland's sewage crisis is out of sight and out of mind.
Scottish Liberal Democrats want to see a Clean Water Act to take the sewage scandal seriously.
There are places where highland roads are more like the surface of the moon.
The Scottish Government ultimately hold the purse strings for local councils.
They need to make sure that the highlands is properly supported to deliver a well maintained road network.
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Retired Oxford academic and 'sewage sleuth' Peter Hammond, subject of hit Channel 4 drama, warned Scotland faces its own sewage scandal.
Scotland is still reeling from the failed Brexit experiment masterminded by the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
It’s costing taxpayers £90bn a year.
That’s why we are calling for a bold new deal with Europe to boost growth, create jobs and keep our country safe.
A leading education expert warned this week of a ‘persistent and worsening shortage’ of specialist teachers in Scottish schools.
Our new research shows that over 500 teaching jobs had to be re-advertised due to shortages.
Posts have been left unfilled for as long as 2 years.
Many highland schools are struggling to recruit permanent staff, yet at the same time the conditions that PSAs face are terrible.
If we want people to make their lives in the highlands, then there need to be permanent contracts and affordable housing for key workers.
We are pleased to have secured an independent chair for the review into maternity services.
It would not have been right for ministers to mark their own homework.
This review must put first the voices of families across the Far North.
The case for a parliamentary inquiry into the facts of who knew what and when about the Murrell scandal is unanswerable.
These unanswered questions remain:
"The Scottish Government has a broken relationship with rural Scotland.
The Lib Dem results in the Highlands are a reflection that this government doesn’t get rural Scotland and hasn’t been present."
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The violence seen in recent days is born of a hatred stoked by bad actors online and amplified by voices in the chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
If they seek to gain political advantage by trying to divide then they underestimate the people of Scotland and they will fail.
