High delivery fees warning

Online shoppers in more rural parts of Scotland face “skyhigh” delivery fees, according to new figures.

Data from the independent Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice) show annual delivery surcharges for Inverness and Nairn amount to almost £7.24 million.

Other areas where shoppers rack up the charges include Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch at £6.27 million, while in

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross and Argyll and Bute the charges amount to £4.8 million and £3.1 million respectively.

The SNP has now demanded action on the issue, with Moray MSP Richard Lochhead campaigning against the “sky-high surcharges”.

Raising the issue ahead of Black Friday - one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping - the SNP MSP said: “Westminster has the powers to put an end to rip-off parcel delivery surcharges for Scots.”