Olivia Andrews
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Councillor moves to Egypt without telling his constituents (opens the original)
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A Moray councillor has moved more than 3000 miles away – to Africa – without telling his constituents. Independent councillor Neil McLennan, originally elected to represent the Conservatives, has held a seat in the Buckie ward since the council elections in May 2022. However, he will now be answering his constituents’ emails from Cairo, Egypt – some 3492 miles from his ward – where he has moved without any announcement. In Cairo, Cllr McLennan is working as a depute head at Malvern College, a Br
Highland Council passes no-confidence vote over rapist taxi driver licence row (opens the original)
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A vote of no confidence has been passed by Highland Council against the five councillors who voted in favour of a convicted rapist to retain his taxi driver’s licence. The decision taken at the full council meeting today (September 17) saw 56 councillors agree with the vote of no confidence while five choose to abstain and six disagreed with it. It comes following the decision made at the licensing committee on June 23 where Councillors Duncan Macpherson, John Grafton, Sean Kennedy, Chris Birt a
'Will you bring them home?' Swinney challenged over Highland children in care (opens the original)
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The First Minister has been asked if his government would ‘bring them home’ as the extent of Highland children being placed in care hundreds of miles from their families due to a lack of local provision, was revealed. Highland and Islands MSP Morven-May MacCallum (Liberal Democrats) brought the issue up during First Minister’s Questions (FMQ) on Tuesday (September 15). She made reference to the story of Sophie McNab, after her father (Iain McNab) said the family face a 10-hour round trip to visi
Family's 230-mile journey to see daughter in residential care 'exposes shortages' (opens the original)
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An Inverness family faces having to travel more than 230 miles to see their teenage daughter who is in out-of-area residential care- and they are not the only ones. A Freedom of Information Request (FOI) has revealed that 26 Highland children are currently living elsewhere in the country because of a lack of suitable residential care provision here. They can require this level of specialist care for various individual or family circumstances, not just for complex or additional needs. Children ha
Calls for external review into council licensing following rapist taxi driver scandal (opens the original)
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Seven female councillors have called for an external review into Highland Council’s licensing committee following the recent scandal over a rapist taxi driver. Ahead of a full council meeting on Thursday (September 17) a motion has been proposed by councillors Jackie Hendry, Emma Knox, Lyndsey Johnston, Kate MacLean, Sarah Atkin, Morven Reid and Kate Willis, calling on Highland Council to commission an external independent review of licensing. It comes after the Courier revealed that convicted r
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