Administrative Assistant (3 year Fixed Term Post) Salary: £16,380 pro-rata The Caithness Partnership brings together the public, private and voluntary sectors to enhance the wellbeing of the people of Caithness. We are seeking to recruit a competent and enthusiastic individual, who is able to use their own initiative, to provide a high level of administrative and clerical support to the Caithness Development Officer.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August 11h) sold 8,040 store lambs at their annual district sale to average £47.22 (+£15.78 on the year). Cheviot wedder lambs (4,489) averaged £47.54 (+£14.65) and sold to £64 gross for a single from 27 Portgower, Helmsdale.
Members of The Highland Council's Planning Environment and Development Committee have the opportunity to discuss progress of the Highland Wide Local Development Plan at their meeting on Wednesday (12 August 2009) before the draft document goes out to public consultation on 31 August for 10 weeks. The Plan sets out the strategy, policy and vision for the Highlands over the next 10-20 years and will provide clear policy guidance for all types of development and highlight key action areas including the A96 Corridor.
Young people in the Highlands who have decided to stay on in education are being reminded by The Highland Council's Education, Culture and Sport Service to apply now for an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). The Highland Council has mailed EMA application forms for 2009-10 to young people aged 16 - 19 in its area urging them not to miss out and apply for an Education Maintenance Allowance.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 10th) sold 53 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (18) averaged 167.5p (-1.7p) and sold to 175p per kg and £1,229.25 gross.
Local MP, John Thurso, is calling on constituents who use heating oils and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to have their say on the problems affecting them in an investigation by Consumer Focus. Consumer Focus, the independent champion for consumers, launched the investigation into this often ignored market following a raft of consumer complaints.
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We are running a Beginners SLR Course on Sunday 20th September (provisional) at Castletown Heritage Centre. It will be a one day course which will help you understand your camera, and improve your photography skills immediately.
The public will soon be able to follow debates on important Highland planning and licensing issues from the comfort of their own homes. In a pilot scheme starting soon, meetings held in the Council Chamber at Inverness of the strategic Planning Environment and Development Committee as well as Inverness Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey Planning Applications Committee and Inverness Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey Licensing Committee will be broadcast live via webcasting on the Council's web site: www.highland.gov.uk.
Council Welcomes Dingwall Streetscape Funding The Highland Council has been successful with a funding bid to the Scottish Government for a facelift of Dingwall High Street. A grant of £462,000 will contribute towards a £947,000 package for town centre improvements.
POLICE are warning householders in the Caithness area about bogus door to door sellers, offering sub-standard goods. There have been a number of reported incidents in the Caithness area of people having purchased items from door to door salesmen, which have subsequently turned out to be faulty or poor quality.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 4th) sold 70 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (33) averaged 169.2p (-2.6p) and sold to 180p per kg and £1,231.65 gross.
Further new measures to create a more effective planning system to support economic recovery come into effect today. The changes include: * Establishing local review bodies so that councillors, rather than the Scottish Government, can review decisions made over small-scale, local developments * A requirement on developers to consult communities before submitting major development proposals * More information being made available on planning decisions * Increasing the options for planning authorities to take effective enforcement action Infrastructure Minister Stewart Stevenson said: "The Scottish Government is working to ensure Scotland's planning system is increasingly joined up, providing greater certainty and speed of decision making for developers and communities.
A team of highly experienced archaeologists from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) are coming to Caithness in September to run a free archaeological training course as part of the Scotland's Rural Past nationwide project. They are calling for local people to sign up and get involved.
Months of hard work have paid off for seven Highland independent museums. Dunbeath Heritage Centre, Timespan (Helmsdale), Groam House Museum (Rosemarkie), Ullapool Museum, Grantown Museum, Gairloch Heritage Museum and the Museum of the Isles on Skye have all achieved museum accreditation, meeting the set of national standards for UK museums.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 21st) sold 75 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (45) averaged 161.3p (-5.0p) and sold to 177p per kg and £1,174.55 gross.
The Caithness Broch Centre opens to the public on Saturday 25 July with a day of activities and talks. The centre, based in Auckengill Old School, takes over where the Northlands Viking Centre left off some three years ago.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, (July, 15th) sold 1,249 store cattle at the Anniversary show and sale. The Judge, Mr Tom Stevenson of Balmacolly Farm, Bankfoot, chose a 435kg junior Limousin cross bullock from Messrs Smallburn Farms Ltd, Duffus, Elgin, which realised £1,050, as his Overall Champion in the T.S.H.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 14th) sold 90 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (49) averaged 166.3p (-4.1p) and sold to 180p per kg and £1,192.80 gross.
