News Archive
16/10/2013
Cod TAC and days at sea are priorities
Increased cod TAC would help prevent discards, while days at sea reduction would cripple fishing industry. A further reduction in the number of days fishermen can go to sea would be devastating for Scotland’s already fragile fishing industry.15/10/2013
Apprentice bonus from Council energy contract
The Highland Council’s commitment to biomass as a heat source has enabled a Lochaber-based green energy company to employ two new apprentices to help service a four-year £1.2 million per year contract with the Council. Biomass heat specialists, HWEnergy, who are based at Torlundy, Fort William, now have an in-house team of more than 50 who install, maintain and service biomass boilers as well as supply wood chips and pellets.
15/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 16th October 2013
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 16th) sold 1850 weaned calves at their second annual district ballot show and sale. The judge, Mr G.15/10/2013
Green Energy firm calls on Highland Council to help release funds to tackle depopulation
Today green energy company Infinergy called upon The Highland Council to allow plans for a wind farm near Dounreay in order to help unlock £9m of community funds. The funds could be used to support a range of projects to help the village of Reay and the wider Caithness area and tackle the problem of depopulation.14/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 15 October 2013
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 15th) sold 51 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (21) averaged 238.6p (-0.6p) and sold to 248p per kg and £1,751.75 gross.14/10/2013
Scotland's first publicly-funded fibre broadband services to be in Inverness-shire and Moray
The first eight areas which will go live in Scotland as part of a multi-million pound publicly-funded fibre broadband project are being announced today (Tuesday 15 October 2013) in the Highlands and Islands. Representatives of the partnership funding the £146m rollout were in Milton of Leys in Inverness to mark the milestone for a project which, together with BT's commercial rollout, will ultimately bring faster broadband to around 84% of the region's premises.13/10/2013
Caithness & North Sutherland Fund Latest Grant Awards!
The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund recently held its 3rd grant assessment round for 2013 awarding over £109K to ten community and voluntary groups for projects that will benefit people living in the Caithness & North Sutherland area. The grant body which is funded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority currently assesses applications quarterly and the closing date for the next assessment round is the 1st of November 2013.
13/10/2013
Council welcomes breakthrough in blacklisting campaign
The Highland Council has welcomed a breakthrough in the national campaign to outlaw the compilation of construction industry blacklists, which detail covertly gathered information on construction trade unionism and the employment history of employees. Eight large construction firms have announced that they intend to compensate workers who were unlawfully blacklisted and denied work for long periods as the result of being blacklisted.13/10/2013
First Highland Community Challenge Fund scheme gets off the ground
The first scheme arranged through The Highland Council’s Community Challenge Fund has started today Monday (14 October 2013). The Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston Community Company have taken over the street cleaning and grounds maintenance in their villages, including the grass cutting in the cemeteries of Auchterawe, Kilchuimen and Strathoich.
13/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 14 October 2013
PORTREE, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, (October, 14th) sold 242 rams at its annual sale of rams. Rams (242) sold to £950 gross for a Cheviot shearling from 13 Peinchorran, Portree.12/10/2013
Atlantis 'partners with plane and missile maker Lockheed Martim
Report By Bill Mowat Atlantis Resources Corporation is 10% shareholder in MeyGen Ltd's Inner Sound seabed lease Crown Estate concession, which lies between 1 and 1.5 miles off Gills Bay/Harbour, between the mainland of Canisbay parish and Stroma Island. As GHL chairman, I'm quite happy to be quoted as stating that the move upwards to 1.5 MW output per individual tidal stream electricity-generating is being considered and indeed is in the early stages of being acted upon by several other tidal turbine developers.11/10/2013
Highland MSP welcomes Report on future of Young Drivers
Highlands & Islands (Labour )MSP and road safety campaigner, David Stewart, has welcomed a report, produced by the House of Commons Transport Committee, which suggests that: • Learner drivers should have to spread lessons over a year • Novice drivers should be banned from carrying passengers aged between 10 and 20 late at night, and • There should be a zero alcohol limit for a year after drivers pass their test The Government has not ruled out adopting the proposals which might help cut road deaths. However it has already announced a total review of the way people learn to drive and of the driving test.
10/10/2013
Landward Caithness by-election timetable confirmed
Link to nomination forms The timetable for the election for the return of a councillor for Ward 4 (Landward Caithness) of The Highland Council has been confirmed today (Friday 11 October 2013). Candidates have until 4pm on Monday 28 October 2013 to confirm they are standing.10/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 11th October 2013
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 11th) sold 5,178 store sheep. Lambs (3,538) averaged £49.66 and sold to £88 gross for Beltex crosses from Dulsie Farm, Glenferness.10/10/2013
Cereal harvest cheer
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Experts estimate improvements on last year.
9/10/2013
SSE Hike Electricity Prices By 8.2 Percent From November 2013
Household electricity and gas tariffs to increase by average of 8.2%. Changes reflect increasing cost of buying wholesale energy, paying to deliver it to customers' homes and government-imposed levies collected through energy bills SSE will implement a series of changes to its household energy tariffs on 15 November 2013.9/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd. - Sale 9th October 2013
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 9th) sold 921 weaned calves at their first annual district ballot show and sale. The judge, Mr J.9/10/2013
Support for farmers
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Latest figures highlight toll taken by poor winter.8/10/2013
Employers Make Great Savings In Recruitment In Our Jobs Section
Employers in Caithness have made great savings in advertising their vacancies since we set up the recruitment section in our forum. Using our message board jobs section is simple and effective due to the large and growing audience on Caithness.org pages including this business section.7/10/2013
