Planning permission was granted yesterday for a 32,670 square foot site that will house a distillery, visitor centre and bonded warehouse. The new micro distillery at John O'Groats has secured a grant from Highland and Islands Enterprise of £198,000.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (March, 4th) sold 365 store cattle 43 OTM cattle. Bullocks (215) averaged 229.9p and sold to 269.4p per kg for a pen of 258kg Aberdeen Angus crosses from 2 Borgie, Skerray and £1,180 gross twice for a pair of 535kg Limousin crosses and for a 560kg Limousin cross all from Udale, Poyntzfield.
ABERDEEN Science Centre has launched a new Highland and Islands outreach programme to give communities in rural and remote areas the opportunity to learn more about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities and opportunities. This project, the first of its type to be developed and delivered by Aberdeen Science Centre, is being led by Andrew Johnston who is based in Dingwall and Fiona Mackenzie who will work from Aultbea, Wester Ross, and managed by Dr.
£86.2 million of convergence payments now underway. More than 17,400 active farmers and crofters have now received their individual allocation of convergence funding.
Plans to boost early learning and childcare (ELC) hours have made steady progress but risks around buildings and staffing remain, say public sector watchdogs. he Scottish Government and councils are working well together to increase ELC hours from 600 to 1,140 a year from August 2020.
The Health Secretary has finally admitted the Scottish Government will bailout NHS Highland to help the health authority deal with bullying and harassment cases. Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, David Stewart, lodged a Parliamentary Question asking what funding the Government had agreed to give NHS Highland for the "healing" process and the investigation of allegations of bullying and harassment of staff previously employed by the NHS board.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (March, 3rd) sold 9 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (3) averaged 188.7p (-15.1p) and sold to 197.0p per kg and £1,350.00 gross.
Many people are getting invitations to conferences especially if they work in medicine, science, social services or engineering. But are they bogus or fake or irrelevant.
This is the 10,000 item on the Caithness Business Index articles and news section. The business index first article was entered on 29th April 2001.
Delayed Discharge. In January 2020, there were 47,529 days spent in hospital by people whose discharge was delayed.
Please be advised that we are about to commence the launch of a pipeline bundle into Sinclair's Bay. This operation will take between 24 - 36 hours and will require Subsea 7 to open the Wester Bridge to allow towheads to pass under and out to sea.
Figures obtained by Scottish Labour from SPICe have revealed that local government non-ringfenced revenue funding has been cut by £898.8m in real terms between 2013-14 and 2020-21. Despite the SNP's claim to have provided a fair deal for local government at this year's budget, these numbers demonstrate that councils will continue to face brutal cuts to important budgets this year.
Highland Council today announced its biggest ever single investment in roads with an extra £20million capital announced in its budget proposals for the year 2020/21. The budget proposals were announced by Budget Leader Alister MacKinnon at a press conference at Highland Council headquarters.
Following the close of nominations at 12 noon on Wednesday 26 February 2020, the outcome is as follows. 2 Community Councils received more nominations than their maximum membership, which means that postal ballots will now be held for Rogart Community Council and Strathnairn Community Council.
LOCHMADDY, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (February, 25th) sold 91 store cattle and 9 OTM. Bullocks (44) averaged 216.6p and sold to 270.8p per kilo for a 240kg Limousin cross from 10 Hougharry, Lochmaddy and £1,040 gross for a 510kg Limousin cross from 4 Tigharry, Lochmaddy.
Electronic monitoring and tracking of vessels is part of a package of measures being taken to protect Scotland's inshore fleet. The programme, which will monitor boats in inshore waters, will help establish local fisheries management arrangements and empower local fishers and their coastal communities.
The deadlines for paying Capital Gains Tax after selling a residential property in the UK are changing from 6 April 2020 - understand the changes and what you need to do. From 6 April 2020, if you're a UK resident and sell a residential property in the UK you'll have 30 days to tell HMRC and pay any Capital Gains Tax owed.
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has expressed alarm at the impact the Scottish Government's Budget will have on councils' ability to tackle child poverty. COSLA warned that the Government has not considered successive years of cuts, or rising inflation and demand and have therefore put the Government’s own 2030 Child Poverty targets at risk.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts, (February, 27th) sold 1,893 sheep of all classes. Lambs (1,138) sold to £100 gross for a Blue Texel from 2 Corbett Terrace, Uig.
Cabinet Secretary for Finance Kate Forbes has reached an agreement with the Scottish Green Party to ensure passage of the Scottish Government's budget at all stages in parliament. The final agreement will increase support for young people, police, climate action and local government.
