It’s great to have local government by-elections back, especially when we have as good a night as we did last Thursday.
We have a really good chance of gaining two new councillors in the Highlands on August 12th.
Colin Aitken is hoping to gain the Inverness West seat from Independent and Jill Tilt is hoping to gain Wick and East Caithness, also from Independent.
Liberal Democrat councillors are currently in administration with the Labour and Independent groups in this vast council which stretches from the north coast to Skye , Lochaber and more than 50 miles south of Inverness.
It takes a good 2.5-3 hours to drive between the two wards, although the journey is much easier than it was when I used to do it frequently in the 80s.
Colin and Jill have been setting out what they want to achieve as Councillors for their areas.