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The prospect of a new school building for the dilapidated Broadford Primary School on Skye has moved a step closer after Highland Council named it on the local authority’s funding wish list for the first time.
Local MSP Kate Forbes has welcomed new figures that show more than 5,000 affordable homes have been delivered in the Highlands since 2007.
Skye MSP Kate Forbes has welcomed new information from Transport Scotland confirming that it is to make road safety improvements at the Sconser ferry junction on the A87 on Skye.
A total of 3,500 families and over 13,000 children across the Highlands and Islands could be affected by the two-child cap, according to new research.
Local MSP Kate Forbes will again clock up over 2,500 miles during the Scottish Parliament’s recess as she travels across her vast Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency on her annual summer tour.
Lochaber MSP Kate Forbes has described it as nothing short of ‘scandalous’ that Highland children are being placed in foster care hundreds of miles away from their home areas.
Several tourism projects on Skye and in the Small Isles are to get thousands of pounds in the latest round of funding from the Scottish Government.
Projects at Glenfinnan and Glen Nevis are among a number of rural tourism schemes to be awarded funding in a new round of grants.
The residents and businesses of Lochaber may well have to endure further years of traffic chaos and congestion along the A82 in and out of Fort William before any solution is found.
