Councillor Ruraidh Stewart
LOCAL NEWS NOVEMBER 10 2023
No date set yet for Portree Hospital urgent care extension NHS Highland has said work to establish a seven-day-a-week service at Portree Hospital’s urgent care centre by its aim of November this year remains ongoing. Since August this year, the urgent care service based at Portree Hospital has been operational from 8am until 8.30pm […]
LOCAL NEWS NOVEMBER 9 2023
𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬’ 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Plans for a major upgrade of the overhead power line network between Skye and Fort Augustus has been rejected by Highland Councillors following a motion by Skye and Raasay members. In only the second ever meeting of the council’s north and south area planning committees, a motion […]
LOCAL NEWS OCTOBER 31 2023
Council education chair hits out at Dunvegan school funding snub The Highland Council’s education chair has criticised the Scottish Goverment for ignoring the pressing need for a new primary school for Dunvegan by omitting the Skye institution from a key funding award. All four bids from the Highland Council, including for Dunvegan, were rejected […]
LOCAL NEWS OCTOBER 26 2023
Highland Council budget: local authority facing “incredible pressures” The leader of the Highland Council has said the local authority is facing incredible financial pressures which could led to job losses amid an unprecedented budget gap of up to £70 million next year. The full council met today to discuss the budget shortfall which could […]
LOCAL NEWS OCTOBER 25 2023
Skye care home resident left to starve – Covid 19 inquiry to hear grave claims Care home residents on Skye may have been left to starve while families may have been pressured into signing do not resuscitate notices on behalf of their loved ones during the Covid-19 pandemic Those are the grave claims expected […]
LOCAL NEWS SEPTEMBER 6 2023
Short-terms lets regulations could “decimate” Highland sector A Highland MSP has warned that the Scottish Government’s new short-term lets legislation could decimate the sector across the region. MSP Jamie Halcro Johnstone, who took part in a protest at Holyrood on Tuesday against the regulations, said that the legislation would just inconvenience operators but fundamentally threaten […]
LOCAL NEWS 22 MAY 2023
Skye and Raasay Councillor stress need for health care progress The need for progress in urgent care and bed provision across north Skye has today been underlined by Skye and Raasay Councillors at an area committee meeting. Speaking at this morning meeting Councillor Calum Munro paid tribute to the community for its hard work in […]
Portree ranked second to worst in Highland Council town report
A Skye Councillor has slammed the Highland Council as being no longer “fit for purpose” after Portree was found to be the second to worst town in the region in a new report. Councillor Stewart’s damning assessment came as the Highland Council published it latest Town Centre Health Check report this week which ranked the […]
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