News Archive
18/10/2013
Business Support Roadshow - Thurso - Get Booked
13 February 2014 The Business Support Roadshows will begin at 4pm with short presentations from each organisation attending detailing how they can support your business. This will be followed by workshops addressing key business issues.17/10/2013
Proposed amendments to Council Service structure
Highland Councillors will be asked next week to amend the Council’s Service structure to align teams into five Services rather than the current seven, delivering year-on-year savings of £350,000 from 2014/15. New Chief Executive Steve Barron has prepared a report for consideration by the Council at its meeting on Thursday 24 October, which recommends changes - to be introduced in two phases - to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of the Council’s services.16/10/2013
Caithness Chamber Call for Businesses To Get In Touch Re Broadband Rollout
Caithness Chamber of Commerce has been set into action following announcments about the rollout of rual braodband as Caithness will not see any benefit for some time yet. The chamber has contacted their meber businesses but would be interested to hear from any Caithness business that thinks slow broadband is affecting their business.16/10/2013
Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd - Sale 17 October 2013
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 17th) sold 2,539 store sheep. Lambs (2,361) averaged £51.20 and sold to £66 gross for Cheviot lambs from Knockglass, Dornoch.16/10/2013
Anti Wind Farm Protest To Confront SNP Conference
National anti-wind farm march & protest, Perth 19th October 2013: STOP THE SPIN! Protestors from across Scotland are converging on Perth on Saturday for the climax of the SNP's annual conference. Police and organisors are expecting higher numbers than ever before.
16/10/2013
Police Drugs Raids Ongoing Across Highland Nets 19 People, Drugs and Cash
Police seize drugs with an estimated value in excess of £20,000 across the Highlands and Islands. Police Scotland - Highland and Islands Division are to report 19 people to the Procurator Fiscal and have seized drugs with an estimated street value in excess of £20,000 and around £5,500 in cash during an intelligence led operation.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
