With just one week to go before microchipping becomes compulsory in England, Scotland and Wales, Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, brings its larger than life mascot ‘Dogcilla’ to meet Drew Hendry MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey at Westminster, following a 145,942 mile cross-country tour to raise awareness of microchipping law …
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£315 million City-Region Deal has been a topic of many discussions between friends, colleagues and businesses Recently in Coffee Affair – one of my favourite haunts, I was discussing our City-Region Deal with Father Andre, (priest for the Romanian community in the north of Scotland) when another patron of the coffee shop, Mary asked could …
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Today is about celebrating this great city and the region and I am delighted to welcome this announcement. This all started with an idea and high ambition – who would have thought that when I first wrote that letter in 2014 we would be where we are today. I am grateful to everyone for getting …
Chancellor’s Budget: More austerity and economic challenges lie ahead When the Chancellor for the Exchequer, George Osborne, stands up in the House of Commons this Wednesday to announce his latest budget, me and the people of the Highlands will no doubt draw our breath, expecting more bad news. We’ve come to expect austerity and economic …
CUSTOMERS SHOULD USE ‘PEOPLE POWER’ TO LOWER THEIR OWN BILLS SNP MP Drew Hendry has welcomed the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) report on the electricity market – but stressed there is more to be done and that consumers should be more aware of their own power to lower their bills. The report has proposed …
The Scottish National Party has today called for a “cast-iron commitment” from the UK government to act on the 4,500 miles of road across the UK where there is no mobile phone signal. The MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey raised the issue in the House of Commons today during Culture, Media and Sport …
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Here is an interesting question; would you like to make a financial donation to a giant energy company of your choice? Would you like to take £300 for instance, out of your own pocket, and donate it to the company that supplies your household or business energy?I think your natural answer to both of these …
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