Jake Swindells - Scottish Countryside Alliance

⭐ Last category for the Countryside Alliance Awards 2026 - Scottish Finals 🏆 Winner of the Village Shop/Post Office Award is Brown's Tobermory 🌟 and the Highly Commended Village Shop/Post Office award goes to Lochcarron Food Centre Congratulations to both businesses!

Hold on, do you think it’s fair farmers (as they currently do) have to foot the eye-wateringly high bill for fly-tipping on their land? Are you suggesting farmers want waste dumped all over the land they care for in order to feed us?

⭐ Countryside Alliance Awards 2026 - Scottish Finals 🏆 Winner of the Rural Enterprise Award is Fine Feathers Design 🌟 and the Highly Commended Rural Enterprise award goes to Scotland's Outdoor Centre Congratulations to both businesses!

⭐ Next up in the Countryside Alliance Awards 2026 - Scottish Finals 🏆 Winner of the Rural Pub Award goes to The Blackadder Bar and Restaurant 🌟 and the Highly Commended pub award goes to @TheGordonArms Congratulations to both businesses - keep up the good work!

⭐ Countryside Alliance Awards 2026 - Scottish Finals 🏆 Next up: Winner of the Local Food and Drink Award is The Coo Shed 🌟 and the Highly Commended Local Food and Drink award goes to @theriverbothy Congratulations to both businesses - keeping our rural communities thriving!

Looking back at the Scottish finals of the 2026 Countryside Alliance Awards. 🏆Winner of the Butcher category was Briggsy's Quality Butchers! 🌟 The highly commended award went to Castle Game Scotland. Congratulations to both businesses!

What a fantastic time we had at the 2026 Scottish Finalists reception on Wednesday evening for the Countryside Alliance Awards! Thank you to everyone for coming along to help celebrate our wonderful rural businesses. countryside-alliance.org/news-content-t…

With good wishes to the Ministers appointed today, It is likely that @JimFairlieLogie’s portfolio will again include fieldsports and most other related activities. We look forward to working together for the benefit of rural Scotland.

@dakppc Very many thanks for your support. It was good to meet you.

I had a wonderful evening at the Scottish Countryside Alliance @ScotCountryside awards night in Edinburgh. Met a lot of lovely people, had some delicious Scottish food and celebrated some marvellously enterprising rural businesses. And I may just have found a major project for my next few years as an MSP...

First Minister @JohnSwinney has started to choose his new cabinet today. @JennyGilruthMSP has been given the Deputy FM role, a position previously held by Kate Forbes. We await to see who will get the Rural Affairs post... #Holyrood @theSNP

The new First Minister will be selected at 2pm tomorrow at Holyrood. @JohnSwinney is expected to be the top contender however @agcolehamilton has also signalled his intentions. Watch proceedings live ➡️ scottishparliament.tv

Have you witnessed church vandalism, fly-tipping, theft, or other crimes in your local area? We have launched an interactive rural crime map to highlight the reality of crime in the countryside and help build a national evidence base for change. ⬇️ bit.ly/49Q6Kdr

Read our quick round-up of key events from the 2026 Scottish Elections. countryside-alliance.org/news-content-t…

Kenneth Gibson SNP has been elected as Presiding Officer for the next Scottish Parliament term. Elections for the Deputy Presiding Officers to follow. @theSNP

Members oaths and affirmations have now concluded. The Presiding Officer and Deputy Presiding Officers will be chosen later today at the Scottish Parliament. Tune in from 2:30pm to watch the proceedings. scottishparliament.tv/meeting/meetin…

Labour’s election losses have highlighted a growing political problem: the party’s relationship with rural Britain. Our latest piece looks at what the results mean for politics & why rural concerns are becoming politically impossible to dismiss: countryside-alliance.org/news-content-t…

The SNP has retained power at Holyrood - but what does the result mean for rural Scotland? In our latest analysis, we break down the election result, what happens next at Holyrood and what rural Scotland should expect from the new Parliament. Read more: countryside-alliance.org/news-content-t…

The SNP have won the Holyrood election with 58 seats, 7 short of a majority. Labour and Reform are tied in second place with 17 seats each. Sign up to our Heather Routes newsletter here: countryside-alliance.org/signup-to-the-…

@scotlibdems Liam McArthur takes the constituency seat in Orkney.