Proposals to make Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea a notifiable disease in Scotland. Views are being sought on whether the pig disease Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) should be classed as a notifiable disease in Scotland.
Leader of The Highland Council, Councillor Margaret Davidson has welcomed the level of public engagement that is helping the local authority plan to deliver its services through more localised decision making. The Highland Council approved a localism action plan at its meeting of the full Council on 29 October 2015 that will start to map out how to deliver decentralised decision making powers to local communities.
DINGWALL, Dingwall and Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 12th) sold 1,983 store sheep. Lambs (1,149) sold to £75 gross for Mule ewe lambs from Lower Gaich, Dulnain Bridge.
With the approach of winter householders are reminded that Garden Waste Collections will cease for a period of 3 months from the end of November. There will be no brown bin collections in December, January or February.
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission (SHE Transmission) has completed its £94m project to refurbish the 275 kilovolt (kV) overhead line on the main west to east transmission route from Beauly via Blackhillock to Kintore. The 157km line was originally constructed in the early 1960s, spans the three local authority areas of Highland, Moray and Aberdeenshire, and is supported on 476 towers.
Highland Council has highlighted its successful joint working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland. The Council's Head of Roads and Transport Richard Evans, BEAR Scotland's Operating Company Representative for the North West Eddie Ross and Transport Scotland’s Acting National Network Manager Jonny Moran delivered a joint presentation at last week’s Community Services Committee meeting.
Deputy First Minister to set out spending priorities for Scotland. Deputy First Minister and Finance Secretary John Swinney will publish financial plans for the Scottish Government on December 16, 2015.
NHS Highland has agreed that the Caithness General Hospital will be heated by energy delivered by the wood fuelled district heating scheme in Wick. Supply of low cost renewable energy will begin immediately.
A new survey into the attitudes and aspirations of young people indicates those taking part from Caithness and Sutherland are strongly connected and proud of their local community. The perceptions of 234 of the area's young people highlight a number of positive findings.
A new food company aims to make good use of a resource that Caithness has in abundance - seaweed. New Wave Foods has ambitions to become Scotlands leading processor of edible seaweed.
DINGWALL, Dingwall and Highland Marts (November, 7th) sold 2 cattle, 3 horses, 22 goats, 1007 sheep including 109 Zwartbles, and 508 lots of poultry, eggs and poultry equipment at their poultry, rare & traditional breeds of livestock sale. Cattle (2) sold to £480 gross for a Dexter cow with calf at foot from Achnahinich, Plockton.
Week commencing 2 November 2015 Energy Business Services: HIEs Michael Koetsier and June Love hosted a successful visit from a potential inward investor last week, as progress continues to be made on opportunities related to the energy sector in the north. Tourism, Food Drink Good to see coverage in todays press of the new business venture being established in Wick.
Over 1,200 people took part in the second of a series of Highland Council Budget Facebook Chats on Tuesday 3rd November. Chair of the Councils Community Services Committee Councillor Allan Henderson and Director of Community Services William Gilfillan took part in the event which focused on Community Services and ways in which savings could be made.
A brand-new specialised ship named the JS INEOS Insight, (22,807 tonnes) which was launched China by Mr Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of the huge international Ineos chemicals firm only last July (2015), made an historic outward-bound maiden transit of the Pentland Firth on Wednesday, 4th November 2015. The 180 metre long vessel has been built, as the first of a modern fleet of specialised vessels, to bring huge quantities of liquefied gas, produced from Americas vast shale-gas fields, to Europe.
DINGWALL, Dingwall and Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 4th) sold 584 weaned calves and store cattle. Stot calves (193) averaged 228.5p and sold to 322.2p per kilo and £1,160 gross for 360kg Limousin cross from Lochdhu, Nairn.
Approval for significant programme of capital investment. The Highland Councils Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee has today (Wed 4 Nov 2015 approved nearly £8 million of capital investment in Town and Countryside regeneration projects throughout Highland over the next nine years.
The Highland Council has welcomed British Airways announcement this morning of a new Heathrow link with Inverness from May next year. Leader of the Council, Cllr Margaret Davidson welcomed the news saying This is excellent news for the economy of the Highlands.
The Highland Council today (Wednesday 4 November 2015) took a major step in agreeing a future vision and strategy for development of the Caithness and Sutherland area over the next 20 years with councillors approval of the Caithness and Sutherland Proposed Local Development Plan (CaSPlan). Once formally adopted it will replace the Caithness Local Plan and Sutherland Local Plan and will be used to guide decisions on planning applications in both Caithness and Sutherland.
HITRANS, the regional transport partnership for the Highlands and Islands, has appointed a project officer to spearhead a significant European-funded project to assist and develop rural and remote airports with use of new technologies. Jayne Westbrook took over this week as Project Officer of SPARA 2020, which stands for Smart Peripheral and Remote Airports - a three-year £1.8 million Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme area project.
The UK's voluntary living wage, as promoted by the Living Wage Foundation campaign group, is to be increased by 40p an hour. The new rate will rise to £8.25 per hour from £7.85.
