Well done to Highlands & Islands Greens and Arun Sharma for their campaign 👏🏻

It's the second week of Easter recess! After a much needed wee break last week, I've been back to work.

Here are some of the things I have been working on this week.

✍️ 'Perhaps nowhere else in Scotland does the climate crisis truly crystallise itself than where I am in the Highlands and Islands'

Ariane Burgess writing in today's National

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🎙️ New episode! Join me and Bonnie VandeSteeg (author) & Maria de la Torre from Knocknagael Ltd (a community group in Inverness) as we delve into the power of community land ownership.
#LandReform

On Spotify:
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On SounCloud:
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Elgin Town Hall revamp set to begin next year

This is a great step for the regeneration of Elgin! 👏
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Short-term let control zone proposed for Plockton
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🗳️ Ward 19 Inverness South by-election
📆 Thursday 11 April 2024

⏰ Polling stations open at 7am and remain open until 10pm tonight.

⚠️ Check your polling card as your polling place may have changed.

Best of luck to Arun Sharma for the Inverness South by-election today!
#VoteGreen 1 #VoteGreen Scottish Greens

Has the Scottish Government banned wood-burning stoves? 🔥

Not quite.

Read our fact check ⬇️

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Solidarity with the unions in Dounreay. ✊

Strike at Dounreay ‘inevitable’ as workers from Unite, GMB and Prospect unions vote overwhelmingly for action.
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I welcome the initiative taken by the Highland Council to step up and ensure a bus service is maintained between Culbokie and Tore Services.

🚌 The timetable for Service 404 is available on the council’s website.
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Great to see this focused work on place making/housing for the most vulnerable communities

Wishing everyone a peaceful and blessed Eid al-Fitr. 💚

The public consultation on Scotland's first ever Good Food Nation Plan ends 2 weeks today.
This new Scottish Government policy could transform our nation's food system for generations to come. Support a wider conversation - host a Kitchen Table Talk: bit.ly/3IYD4x5

The new North West Highlands Beach Cleans Facebook group have just reached 3 tonnes of beach litter !
An amazing effort in just 15 weeks 🚮🗑️💪💪

Ariane Burgess Kate Forbes MSP Maree Todd

While the Tories and Labour retreat from their policies and make excuses in the press, climate breakdown marches on.

It won't wait. It won't negotiate. We must face up to the reality of the situation and accelerate climate action now.

Flooding impacts from rivers and surface water are possible across eastern and southern Scotland from tomorrow morning due to heavy rain which is forecast to start overnight.

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🐟Multinational salmon firms are using their multi-billion pound profits to lobby against plans to control lice in salmon farms.

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🥀Labour are saying the quiet part out loud now.

🏥Labour's shadow health secretary said he would force the NHS to use services from the private health sector.
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