Peter Peacock, Highlands and Islands Labour Regional MSP has again backed proposals for a direct air link between Skye and other parts of the Highlands and Islands and the central belt.
Mr Peacock said, “Some time ago I was approached by a constituent on this issue and wrote to Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, Highlands [...]
Peacock Backs Skye Airlinks
No local office exempt from HIE job cuts
No local office will be safe from the jobs cuts facing Highlands and Islands Enterprise – this was the stark warning issued to Labour MSP Peter Peacock.
The confirmation came from HIE Chief Executive, Sandy Cumming, under questioning from the Highlands and Islands regional MSP in Parliament this week.
Despite its long term effort to decentralise the [...]
Police numbers revealed for Northern Constabulary
North Labour MSP, Peter Peacock, has slammed the minority SNP government on police numbers after an answer to a Parliamentary question revealed that Northern Constabulary would only get 8 additional police officers next year, far less than the SNP promised at the election.
He said, “The SNP made great play during the election about the huge [...]
Moray Flooding Schemes Can’t be delivered – admits Senior Civil Servant
Budget plans for Moray flooding schemes are in tatters following a meeting of the Scottish Parliament’s environment and rural affairs committee when a senior civil servant agreed it would be hard for Moray Council to ever find the money to fund their programme given the SNP government’s scrapping of the current grant arrangements.
The revelation came [...]
Call for funding for wildlife officer
Peter Peacock, Highlands and Islands Labour regional MSP, has contacted the police board for Northern Constabulary to call for funding for a full time wildlife officer.
Mr Peacock previously raised the issue that Northern Constabulary, which covers the largest area of wild land in the UK, does not have a permanent officer dealing with wildlife crime [...]
Police numbers to be cut in the North
The SNP’s broken promise on police numbers is going to cost the Highlands and Islands almost 100 new police officers, claims north Labour regional MSP, Peter Peacock.
The revelation comes following close examination of the SNPs statements on their budget plans for police, following Wednesday’s budget statement to Parliament.
Based on their share of the promised 1,000 [...]
Reaction to Nationalists’ Budget
Peter Peacock said, “This confirms what we predicted, the nationalists are breaking their promises to the Highlands and Islands. “With the biggest budget in Scottish government history and twice as much as Donald Dewar had, they would rather try to blame Westminster than take responsibility for their broken promises.“We will be examining each and every [...]
Highlands and Islands MSP backs groundbreaking Feis Academy.
Peter Peacock, Highlands and Islands Labour regional MSP, has been backing moves for a ground breaking traditional Scottish Arts academy with members at the Scottish Parliament.
Mr Peacock, who has been supporting Feisean nan Gaidheal, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and UHI, praised the group’s strenuous efforts to build on the success of [...]
SNP Broken Promises Will Affect the Islands
Peter Peacock, Highlands and Islands Labour MSP has spelled out the affect of the minority nationalist government’s broken promises on the Western isles.Speaking at a meeting of the Labour Party in Stornoway at the weekend, he said,
“As every week passes we are seeing more and more broken promises from the minority nationalist government.
“They seem to [...]
Raasay post office
Peter Peacock, Highlands and Islands Labour Regional MSP is calling on the chairman at Royal Mail to rethink his position on the future of Raasay post office.In a letter to the Raasay branch, the Post Office has indicated that the local service does not fall into the categories protected from compulsory closure.
While it emphasises this [...]
