News Archive
6/9/2024
Climate Change Bill Published - Establishment Of Carbon Budget Approach To Setting Climate Targets
Legislation to create a carbon budget approach to setting climate targets has been published. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill seeks to amend the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, in response to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) advice that Scotland's interim emissions reduction target for 2030 was beyond what could be achieved.6/9/2024
Safe Access To Abortion Services - New protected zones come into force on 24 September
From 24 September 2024 it will be an offence to intentionally or recklessly influence, harass or prevent anyone from accessing or providing abortion services in protected zones around certain hospitals and clinics. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 comes into force and creates protected zones of 200 metres around all premises providing abortion services.[Jewelers]
5/9/2024Caithness-based Engineering Firm Envision Engineering & Design Ltd Goes For Growth With Latest New Equipment
Caithness-based engineering firm Envision Engineering & Design Ltd is investing in new technology that will help increase business turnover and productivity while cutting carbon emissions. The company has purchased a Leica Geosystems mobile 3D scanner after securing a £6,390 investment from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) towards the total cost of £21,300.
5/9/2024
John Swinney - Programme For Government Announced 4 September 2024
Eradicating child poverty, building prosperity, improving public services and protecting the planet will be the top priorities of the Scottish Government, First Minister John Swinney has pledged. Outlining his first Programme for Government (PfG) as First Minister, Mr Swinney set out how the Scottish Government will deliver commitments that are ‘affordable, impactful and deliverable'.5/9/2024
Susan Smith The Chief Executive Of Cairngorm Mountain Scotland Ltd Is Retiring
The chief executive of Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd (CMSL) has announced that she is retiring later this month. Susan Smith, who has held the top job at the popular mountain resort near Aviemore for the past five years, has told staff she will leave the company at the end of September.
5/9/2024
Highland Communities Are To Benefit From Over £800k Regeneration Funding Awarded To Rural Projects
The Highland Strategic Local Action Group who met during August, considered, and agreed funding for 49 projects submitted to the Community Led Local Development fund (CLLD), which makes up part of The Highland Council Community Regeneration Funding (CRF) programme. Chair of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Councillor Ken Gowans, said: "It is the third year in a row that we have been successful in securing a large allocation of CLLD funding from the Scottish Government.5/9/2024
Coronavirus Covid-19 Business Support Fund Grant Statistics For Scotland- Fraud Recoveries are Ongoing
Statistics on the coronavirus (COVID-19) business support fund grants including the number of awards granted and the value of these awards. In March 2020, two grant funds were made available to businesses to provide financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Small Business Grant Fund and the Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure Grant Business Grant Fund.5/9/2024
State Pension Could Rise By More Than £400 In 25/26 - Announcement Expected Soon
The BBC has uncovered the fact that the new full state pension in the UK could rise by more than £400 per year. The Treasury's internal working calculations, reportedly seen by the BBC, revealed the pension could be boosted as a result of April's triple lock.5/9/2024
Establishing A Shadow Great British Railways
The UK Government will begin delivering improvements for rail passengers and freight users straight away. On 3 September 2024 The minister for transport Rt Hon Louise Haigh MP announced that she will be instructing the CEO of Network Rail, the Director General for Rail Services in the Department for Transport, and the CEO of DfT OLR Holdings Ltd (DOHL) to establish a Shadow Great British Railways.
5/9/2024
UKs 2nd Pavilion At Semicon Taiwan Brings More Uk Businesses
UK's 2nd pavilion at 2024 SEMICON Taiwan brings more UK businesses to Taiwan to explore collaboration opportunities in the semiconductor industry. Led by the UK Government's National Technology Adviser (NTA), Dr Dave Smith, 24 innovative British businesses from across the semiconductor sector will be visiting Taiwan and participating at the 2024 SEMICON Taiwan starting on 3 September.5/9/2024
Britain Takes Decisive Action To Ban Zombie Drug Xylazine
Legislation has been laid in Parliament to ban xylazine and 21 other dangerous drugs. Legislation has been laid in Parliament to ban xylazine and 21 other dangerous drugs as part of the government's action to prevent drug deaths and crack down on drug dealing gangs.5/9/2024
Skills Minister Jacqui Smith Delivers A Speech At The Universities Uk Conference
I thank you very much for that welcome, and it's an enormous honour to be here, and thank you very much to Universities UK for the kind invitation. I'm also very pleased and proud to be back in government again, 25 years after I first arrived at the Department for Education in my first ministerial job, but it’s great this time to be here at the beginning of a new government too.
5/9/2024
Council Gearing Up For Highland Visitor Levy Consultation
The Highland Council is reaching an important milestone in the preparation of introducing a visitor levy in Highland. Following an extensive consultation in 2019 - in which 6,600 residents, businesses and visitors responded.5/9/2024
What Is Modern Monetary Theory - Richard Murphy
This is a longer video from Richard Murphy but if you can listen to it all you will have had a masterclass in economics. You will then perhaps listen to politicians much more critically when they speak about the deficit and be able to spot many of the mis-statements and wrong information about their policies.
5/9/2024
Councillors Approve Process For Creation Of Firework Control Zones
A process for responding to community requests for the creation of Firework Control Zones in The Highland Council area has been approved by Members of the Communities and Place Committee. The option of using a Firework Control Zone is one of the tools available to respond to serious firework misuse and the Council will work with communities and key partners to consider appropriate and proportional response to local firework issues.5/9/2024
Martin Lewis Makes Winter Fuel Payment "plea" To All Pensioners Ahead Of Reeves Meeting
Another reminder for pensioners to claim pension credit which may qualify people for the Winter Heating Allowance. This is important as not only are pensioner losing the Heating allowance but energy prices will go up in October and again in January 2025 - a triple whammy.5/9/2024
The Days When Managing The Economy Is All About Inflation Should Be Over - Richard Murphy
Inflation is always a temporary phenomenon that always cures itself. History proves that.
5/9/2024
Ineffective Savings Accounts - Isas
6 April 2024 marked the beginning of a new ISA (Individual Savings Account) year with savers able to squirrel away up to £20,000 over the next year, with the returns being completely tax free. This is the Government's flagship policy to promote saving - with around 12 million adults benefiting in 2021-22.
4/9/2024
The Staggering Figure Needed To Match The Full State Pension
The state pension is now worth £250,000 to retirees, research shows. Pensioners aged 66 qualify for the full state pension paying £11,502.40 a year if they have paid National Insurance (NI) contributions for 35 years.4/9/2024
