Jim Fairlie: Last News

Perthshire Pride is “committed to working with all people” in the region after legislation to make it easier for individuals in Scotland to change their legally recognised gender was passed by MSPs at Holyrood last week.

Rural communities face being “abandoned” after the end of a popular bus service, according to a Lochearnhead based MSP.

A local politician has donated £50,000 he fundraised by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to the cancer treatment unit at Perth Royal Infirmary.

A further public meeting has been planned to discuss proposed £310,000 measures to significantly reduce the impact of flooding in the Craigie area of Perth.

Seven SNP MSPs have defied Nicola Sturgeon by voting against plans to make it easier for people to change their gender.

After eight gruelling days proud Perthshire politician Jim Fairlie reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in memory of his late brother Andrew.

A crisis meeting to find a solution to the flooding chaos in Perth over the past few years will be held in the city next week.

Passengers across Perth and Kinross were once again left in the lurch on Monday after a staggering 143 scheduled bus departures were pulled by Stagecoach amid a deepening driver shortage crisis.

Thousands of people every year dream of touching the board at the peak of the famous Mount Kilimanjaro.

Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach has backtracked on its decision to merge with National Express and agreed to a takeover by a German asset manager instead in a move described as “welcome” by local politicians.

An SNP MSP has claimed the cost of living crisis has "exposed as a lie" a key claim made by the pro-Union campaign before the 2014 independence referendum.

Perthshire politicians have revealed they will this week meet with OVO bosses to discuss potential job losses.

The Fair City has been hit with a "major jobs blow" after OVO announced it will close its Perth office.

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Perthshire politician has slammed trolls who this week targeted the chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).Gill Walton was the subject of online abuse after she encouraged pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine.Perthshire South and Kinross-shire MSP Jim Fairlie has now backed the advice from the RCM and offered his support to Ms Walton.He said: “Once again we have seen the trolls who inhabit the dark recesses of Twitter launching disgusting and frightening attacks on a woman for making a statement that they disagreed with.“People are perfectly entitled to hold science-denying conspiracy theories.

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire SNP MSP Jim Fairlie said he would do “everything I can to champion our rural schools”. It comes after an “informal pre-consultation exercise” ended on Sunday, May 16, gathering views on a catchment review and the future of the school.Perth and Kinross Council is reviewing the catchment area as it creates a new catchment for the brand new primary school and nursery at Bertha Park, which is due to open in August 2026.

Perth and Kinross SNP councillor has revealed he believes “now is not the time” for an independence vote. Strathallan representative Tom Gray made the admission following the results of last week’s Scottish Parliament elections.His thoughts came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Prime Minister Boris Johnson it was a matter of when, not if, for indyref2.

Perthshire results a “disaster” for the Conservatives and attacked candidates Murdo Fraser and Liz Smith. Both Conservative politicians were later elected to the Scottish Parliament in the Mid Scotland and Fife regional list ballot.

Perthshire ’s food and drinks industry recover from COVID. The newly elected Perthshire South and Kinross-shire MSP is keen to turn things around.

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire constituency for the SNP. The farmer won the seat over the Conservative's Liz Smith.Mr Fairlie will take over from Roseanna Cunningham, who had been Scotland's longest serving parliamentarian.

Perthshire hotel industry where drug-taking was said to be commonplace was caught driving with more than six times the permitted level of cocaine in his bloodstream.Twenty-three-year-old Dean Hammon, who was living in Auchterarder at the time, also had almost 15 times the legal level of another substance in his body.Jim Fairlie is SNP candidate for Perthshire South and Kinross-shirePerth Sheriff Court was told that the accused, previously of Ruthvenvale Terrace, had “got in with a bad crowd” at the unnamed hotel where he had been employed and started taking drugs.But he was caught with two illicit substances in his system after police stopped him for a “vehicle check” in Auchterarder’s main street in the early hours.It led to him being