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Following the deadline for nominations, The Highland Council can confirm that the following community councils have received sufficient nominations and will form uncontested:. Carrbridge Community Council Kilmuir and Logie Easter Portree and Braes Resolis Sinclairs Bay Tannach and District. Unfortunately, the following four Community Councils failed to form: Bower Conon Bridge Lochalsh Smithton There will another opportunity to try and form these in August 2025 when the next Notice of Election will be published. .
18/2/2025
Latest round of Reach for the Sky programme awarded £810,000 to 16 organisations across the UK. £810,000 of new government funding to help young people start a career in aviation by breaking down barriers to opportunity with the air transport and aerospace sector contributing £20 billion to the UK economy, investment in the next generation of professionals will secure long-term economic growth and deliver on the government's Plan for Change.
18/2/2025
Plans to transform the way social care is delivered are being progressed as part of the Scottish Government's commitment to improve the experience of everyone who accesses social care, social work and community health services. Ahead of Stage 2 proceedings of the National Care Service Bill later this month, a number of amendments have been lodged, all of which are subject to Parliament's agreement.
18/2/2025
Council tax is levied on the occupiers of residential property to help fund the provision of local services. Individual Scottish councils set the tax rates for their area, but it is the Scottish Government that determines the tax base to which the tax rates apply.
18/2/2025
Building on the foundations laid at Bletchley Park and Seoul, the Paris AI Action Summit was a gathering of nearly a hundred countries and over a thousand stakeholders. They came from the private sector and civil society.
18/2/2025
A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research into England's planning system finds that the government will have to tackle unproductive land speculation and ramp up strategic planning capability if it wants to meet its housebuilding targets. While many blame the planning system, significant non-planning related barriers exist in the delivery of house building, such as developers slowing their build rates or securing permission and then not building.
18/2/2025
New TUC analysis reveals Women's Pay Day for 2025 - the day when the average woman stops working for free compared to the average man - was yesterday (Sunday, 16 February 2025). In some industries and regions where the gender pay gap is wider, women effectively work for free for even longer.
18/2/2025
Early estimates for January 2025 indicate that the number of payrolled employees broadly stayed the same compared with January 2024, a rise of just 49,000 employees. This change was highest in the health and social work sector, a rise of 92,000 employees, and lowest in the accommodation and food service activities sector, a fall of 58,000 employees.
18/2/2025
Without policy action, many will end up with their savings scattered across several small private pension pots by the time they reach retirement. Private-sector employees tend to get a new pension pot every time they change employer.
18/2/2025
Two years after the release of its first UK Plan for Chips report, techUK is today publishing an updated review, urging the UK Government to accelerate the implementation of its ambitious National Semiconductor Strategy. Semiconductors are the foundation of modern digital technology, powering everything from from day to-day consumer electronics, vehicles, defence, healthcare, to the data centres powering AI.
18/2/2025
Austerity is an unusual economic concept. While it is one of the economic terms that attracts the most interest from the public, it remains controversial in policy debates.
18/2/2025
Ukraine is at a turning point in the war, and the next few weeks could determine the outcome of the conflict. Russian forces are under immense strain, with reports indicating that they have lost over 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles in the past year alone.
18/2/2025
Wealth inequality has increased since the financial crisis with wealth inequality becoming as important as income inequality for determining life chances. Why it occurred and what can we do?.
18/2/2025
Who and what are we defending in the UK? It's a question in need of an answer. As politicians and politicians demand more defence spending, whose rights are we defending, and so who should pick up the bill?.
17/2/2025
Rising bills, falling support, and a bizarre, outdated design, mean that Council Tax is increasingly resembling the dreaded Poll Tax that it replaced. Poorer households spend an ever-greater share of their income paying it, according to new Resolution Foundation research published today Monday 17 February 2025.
17/2/2025
The CMA has found that Topps Tiles' acquisition of CTD Tiles could reduce competitive deals and product choice for customers and businesses in parts of England and Scotland. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Topps Tiles' £9 million purchase of 30 CTD Tiles stores raises competition concerns in 4 areas of the United Kingdom.
17/2/2025
Over two million extra NHS appointments including for chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endoscopy, and diagnostic tests delivered as government delivers first step to fix the NHS seven months early. Pledge to deliver over two million more elective care appointments hit early with over 100,000 more treatments, tests and scans for patients each week.
17/2/2025
Rooftop solar panels could cut poorer households' energy bills by almost a quarter, but big upfront costs mean millions are missing out, according to new Resolution Foundation research published on Thursday 13 February 2025. Sunny day savings examines what the Government's proposed ‘rooftop revolution' in solar energy - which could put millions more solar panels on roofs by 2030 - means for household energy bills, and efforts to reduce fuel poverty.
17/2/2025
The UK economy unexpectedly grew at the end of last year, despite the Bank of England predicting last week it would be in recession territory. But GDP per capita - which closely tracks disposable income growth – is still lower today than it was before the pandemic, the Resolution Foundation said today (Thursday).
17/2/2025
In the week to 9 February 2025, both total Revolut debit card spending and overall retail footfall decreased by 6% and 4%, respectively, compared with the previous week. When compared with the equivalent week of 2024, total Revolut debit card spending increased by 6%, while overall retail footfall decreased by 1% (Revolut, MRI OnLocation).