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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Experts estimate improvements on last year.
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.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 9th) sold 921 weaned calves at their first annual district ballot show and sale. The judge, Mr J.
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Latest figures highlight toll taken by poor winter.
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.
Scotland’s regional airport operator HIAL recorded 1.3 million passengers last year, delivered an improved financial performance, and invested more than £8 million upgrading its 11 airports. The figures are among the highlights in the company’s annual report and accounts for 2012/13.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 8th) sold 49 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (27) averaged 236.7p (-2.5p) and sold to 258p per kg and £1,806.00 gross.
The Highland Council has fully endorsed the need for a national strategy and a long term campaign aimed at tackling littering and fly-tipping. In a submission to the Scottish Government’s consultation on “Towards a litter-free Scotland”, the Council backs stronger penalties for littering and fly-tipping and increased emphasis on education and awareness.
Boosting skills essential for tackling joblessness and improving well-being, says OECD. The low-skilled are more likely than others to be unemployed, have bad health and earn much less, according to the first OECD Survey of Adult Skills Countries with greater inequality in skills proficiency also have higher income inequality.
A call for people’s early suggestions of sites and ideas for the new Caithness and Sutherland Local Development Plan – CaSPlan – is in to its last fortnight. It is therefore important that people take up The Highland Council’s invitation to submit suggestions for inclusion in the new plan for the future of Caithness and Sutherland, before the deadline on 17 October 2013.
Since opening in 2000, the ERI has become a dynamic research organisation with a young, highlymotivated team, and the ethos of multi- and inter-disciplinarity is securely embedded. Today, the ERI has become a focus for promoting excellence in research in the region, largely due to the ability of its investigators to work with stakeholder, commercial, academic and educational organisations alike.
Highland Opportunity are coming to Thurso with a 2 day business Start-up woorkshop open to anyone thinking about starting a new business. Join our two day workshop where you will learn how to develop your ideas into a practical and effective plan to launch your business.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 4th) sold 3,091 breeding ewes and lambs at their annual Blackface & Cross ewes, gimmers, ewe lambs sale. Blackface ewes (1,058) sold to £60 gross from the dispersal of the Balloan flock, Farr.
Council and E.ON work together to improve Highland homes. Home owners in four Highland Council Wards are the first to be offered free energy saving measures in a £6.4 million project with energy company E.ON.
Getting a better deal on air travel for rural regions, such as the Highlands and Islands, was top of the agenda for The Highland Council Leader Drew Hendry when he addressed delegates at the General Assembly of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions in St Malo, Brittany, France. Councillor Hendry won the support of delegates for further research to be carried out by CPMR for present to the European Commission.
