News Archive
5/7/2014
Post Office Doubles Current Account Pilot Branches To 239
- Post Office current account will be available in 239 branches across the UK by the end of September - Customers can service their accounts in over 11,500 branches, online or at one of the 40 mobile Post Office vans - Accounts can be opened with a minimum balance of £20 - Customers will receive a £100 One4All gift card when they switch to a Post Office current account The Post Office announces the next stage of extending the current account pilot to further branches across the UK as it continues to position itself as a challenger to the high street banks. From today, the Post Office current account, in partnership with Bank of Ireland UK, will be made available in an additional 76 branches bringing the total to 239 by the end of September through a phased introduction.5/7/2014
Motorists Can Seize Savings as Car Insurance Costs Decline
- Drivers actively shopping around for best deal benefit as average car insurance premiums now £406 a year - June saw first monthly fall in premiums since February 2014 British motorists continue to benefit from declining car insurance premiums, according to today's pricing data from MoneySuperMarket. www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/ Analysis of 42.5 million car insurance quotes run on Britain's number one comparison site between January 2011 and June 2014 reveals that the average cost of car insurance fell last month, to £406 - down from £411 in May.
5/7/2014
London is the UK's Savviest City With Edinburgh Not Far Behind
Londoners have proved that although the Scots may be canny with their cash, when it comes to money matters the nation's financial centre is the UK's savviest city. Comparison website Gocompare.com compiled ten questions to test consumer's attitudes to managing their money together with their financial general knowledge in order to create the first 'Savvy Cities Index'.5/7/2014
Co-operative Energy Backing World's Biggest Community Energy Campaign
Leading energy provider, Co-operative Energy is today announcing that it will sponsor 2014's Community Energy Fortnight, as part of the world's biggest community energy campaign. Organised by the Community Energy Coalition (CEC) - a group of 36 civil society organisations led by sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, the Community Energy Fortnight will run from 13th to 28th September and will be the highlight of the community energy calendar.4/7/2014
Corporate Communications Manager appointed
Ruth Cleland, currently Strategic Engagement Manager with Highlands and Islands Enterprise has been appointed as Corporate Communications Manager with The Highland Council. Ruth was, from April 2008 to October 2014, Head of Communications with Northern Constabulary and before that held the roles of Head of Internal Communications with NHS Highland (2005- 2009) and Public Relations and Communications Manager with the Highland Acute Hospitals Trust (1999-2005).4/7/2014
Choice of Cheaper Balance Transfers With Nationwide's New Credit Card Deals
Nationwide customers are being offered the choice of 0% interest balance transfer deals when they apply for one of their balance transfer credit cards. The building society's credit card offers 26 months' interest free for a transfer fee of 2.4%, but there is also the option to take a 15 month interest free deal, but with a much smaller balance transfer fee of 0.65%.4/7/2014
Scottish Independence: Economic and Political Challenges
With less than two months to go until the Scottish referendum, Schroders European Economist, Azad Zangana provides his thoughts on the economic and political challenges of Scottish Independence in this video and below: Scotland will hold an historic referendum that could see it end a 300-year long political and economic union with the rest of the UK. We analyse the political and economic implications for both an independent Scotland and the remaining UK.4/7/2014
1990s Cohort 40% Better Paid Than Those Who Started Work in the 70s
People who started their career in the 1990s were paid on average 40% more in real terms in their first 18 years than those who started in the 1970s were at the same stage of their career, a new report from ONS has found. The article uses inflation-adjusted earnings data to see how the pay of people who were 21 in 1995 has fared over the period to 2013, by which time the workers concerned were aged 39.4/7/2014
CWU Secures Three-Year Pay Deal for BT Workers
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday (Thursday 3 July 2014) announced a three-year pay deal following on from protracted negotiations with BT. The union, who represents more than 45,000 non-management BT staff, has been in top-level talks with the company since February this year.3/7/2014
Wallpaper Sale Now on at W & D Ross Paint Spectrum
Wallpaper Sale Now on at W & D Ross Paint Spectrum, Couper Square, Thurso. Up to 50% off all stocked wallpapers Large selection of sale bundles now also available Visit us to see some great offers.
3/7/2014
Pledge to improve grass cutting service in Highland
The Highland Council and Contractor ISS have put in place measures to improve standards of grass cutting in public open spaces and cemeteries in the Highlands. The move has come about following recent unprecedented levels of complaints about standards of grass cutting which were received by Elected Members and the Council in the past month.
3/7/2014
NEET rates decrease in all Scottish Local Authorities
Over the year to November 2013, the rates of 16-19 year olds who were not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) decreased in all 32 local authority areas. Scotland's Chief Statistician today released estimates of young people aged 16-19 who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) at a local authority level in Scotland.Flavours Ice Cream Opens Second Shop In Thurso
Flavours ice Cream Shop At John O'Groats has been a huge success and scored a hit with the public. with so much enthusiasm for the shop a new one has been set up in Thurso and will open its doors on Wednesday 2nd July 2014 at 2.00pm.
1/7/2014
CNSF Receives NDA Next Instalment Of £300K
The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund (CNSF), a grant body funded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), received its second instalment of £300k at a recent stakeholder event held in the new low level waste repository vault at the Dounreay site. This funding is the latest instalment of the NDA's £4M community benefit package being provided via DSRL.
1/7/2014
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 1 July 2014
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 1st) sold 53 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (36) averaged 195p (-4.2p) and sold to 216p per kg and £1,457.80 gross.1/7/2014
Africa benefits from Scots technology
Mobile app will help millions of farmers. High-tech Scots excellence will help tens of millions of farmers across Africa to solve animal health issues, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed today.1/7/2014
I'M NOT RAVING, I’M SAVING
· Over five million 18-24 year olds (66 per cent) are saving regularly each month · Average young savers has around £3,200 set aside · Less than one per cent say that their financial priority is to put money into a pension Young Britons are bucking the trend of the generation before them by choosing to save rather than spend, according to new figures out today. The findings indicate that over five million 18-24 year olds, approximately 66 per cent of the age group, manage to put money aside each month into savings or investments, each putting aside £204 on average.1/7/2014
Camster Wind Farm Has Begun Production
Eon has switched on the 50MW Camster wind farm in Caithness, Scotland. The wind farm lies between Lybster and Watten and has 25 Vestas V80 turbines.1/7/2014
Fishing for the common good - Fish quota consultation launched
Ensuring fish quotas are managed for the common good is at the centre of a new consultation launched today. Fish quotas are the amount of fish that may be landed by our fishing vessels.1/7/2014
