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Edward Mountain says ‘Going into competition with these businesses is madness’.
The first Scottish site to be granted World Heritage status purely on the basis of its natural criteria is set to be recognised in parliament.
Fiona Hyslop was speaking after the Scottish Government put in place ‘emergency controls’ on spending.
Opposition parties say they are ‘horrified’ by the move warning of the ‘potentially devastating unintended consequences’.
Problems include a ‘no documentation or scrutiny of the whole discharge planning’ process and a lack of review leading to ‘significant cost impacts’.
The star himself said it was a ‘fun show’ while one fan said ‘fantastic concert, loved all the songs, the band, the stories’.
Fergus Ewing warns ‘this is unfair to the existing businesses and potentially illegal and unsafe for holiday makers’.
Scottish Labour says ‘This is what privatisation looks like – those who can, pay for a private dentist; those who can’t, suffer’
In the first adjournment debate of new the parliament, he said: ‘17 years of centralisation has wreaked havoc on my part of the world’.
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’.
Meanwhile Liberal Democrats head to London to represent the Highlands with a new UK government in place.
Jamie Stone intends to ‘get the health service right, let's get education right – these things matter and people were telling me that’.
Deputy First Minister says with two years before the Holyrood elections the SNP must ‘ensure we can demonstrate delivery, implementation and change’.
It is another seat for the Lib Dems who are enjoying a good night with the party expected to get more than 50 seats.
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross on the other hand is projected to be a Liberal Democrat win
Mr Ross is a Highland list MSP but is seeking election to the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East seat, if he wins then he will resign from Holyrood.
Exit polls are suggesting a sure in the Lib Dem vote while the SNP is predicted to keep just 10 seats.
There are more than 200 polling stations and more than 700 staff spread across an area twice the size of Jamaica.
