People living in The Highland Council area can now find out how to foster and adopt in the comfort of their own homes. Alison Gordon, Highland Council's Fostering and Adoption Resource Manager explained: "We have created this website to try to make it easier for anyone living in the Highlands who is considering fostering or adoption and we have tried to make the process of applying easier.
Douglas Fraser, Business/economy editor, Scotland has set out the tale of woe and history of The Saudi Arabia of Wind power that never seems to happen. A comprehensive view of many statements and potential that never happened with a very few that did.
The Highlands and Islands has enormous potential in developing the marine economy according to a new study. Entitled ‘Maximising the Marine Economy in the Highlands and Islands' (MAXiMAR), the study focuses on supporting the growth of aquaculture, energy and marine biotechnology which are the most highly innovative sectors.
The Highland Council has today (Monday 11 March 2019) announced the release of a new mapping tool for available business and industrial land across the Council area that is aimed at supporting investment in the Highlands. The Business and Industrial Land Audit (BILA) measures the availability of land allocated in the Local Development Plan(s) for business and industrial uses and grades it according to how quickly the land can be made available and prepared for use.
With wet and windy weather set to hit the UK this week, breakdown cover provider Green Flag is predicting 135,000 callouts and 73,000 breakdowns on UK roads between Tuesday and Friday. This amounts to 13 breakdowns per minute over the course of the week.
Published by the Bank of England today 11th March 2019. Speech given by Jonathan Haskel, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee.
The creation of a new South of Scotland enterprise agency has been given full support by the Scottish Parliament's Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee. The findings come in a Stage 1 report on the South of Scotland Enterprise Bill.
Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands joins senior executives from DF Barnes on visit to the Arnish yard DF Barnes is celebrating its first contract win with the creation of 82 jobs at its yard in Arnish less than a year since taking over BiFab. BiFab has been awarded a contract by GeoSea to produce piles worth up to £26.5 million as part of the Moray East Offshore Windfarm development.
A new digital exhibit that celebrates the lives and achievements of one hundred women across the country has gone on display at the Scottish Parliament. As part of the Scottish Parliament's 20th anniversary, and to coincide with International Women's Day, the free exhibit is a digital touchscreen-based interpretation of the sculpture called Travelling the Distance by Glasgow-based artist Shauna McMullan.
More than 29,000 people will benefit from Modern Apprenticeship opportunities next year in a continued effort to support youth employment, Fair Work Minister Jamie Hepburn announced. The 29,000 target includes Modern and Graduate Apprenticeships and puts Scotland on course to reach a longstanding commitment to 30,000 new apprenticeship starts each year by 2020.
Usdaw's delegation to Scottish Labour Conference, which starts today 8 March 2019 in Dundee, will be raising deep concerns about the continued growth of in-work poverty and the Scottish Government's failure to tackle this issue. Stewart Forrest - Usdaw Divisional Officer for Scotland says: "Too many jobs in Scotland are insecure, without guaranteed hours or income.
An online tool which has helped thousands of UK farms to reduce their carbon footprint has won a major industry award. Scotland's Rural College beat entries from Volvo Group and the Scottish Government's Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme to top the Low Carbon and Energy category at the inaugural CeeD Industry Awards in Glasgow.
The report presented to Highland council gives background leading up to the closure of Caithness Horizon in Thurso. Talks are ongoing regarding the future of the museum.
The following has been issued nationwide today 7th March 2019. Improvised Explosive Device Sent via Mail - 6th March 2019.
The motion was proposed at Highland council today 7th March 2019. It was emotively opposed by Caithness councillors.
Over the years, we have helped many companies throughout the Highlands and Islands to explore their exporting potential and be business brave. In our latest film, which has been viewed over 1,600 times already on Facebook, we featured just a small selection of these businesses.
As part of The Highland Council's Redesign Programme, a comprehensive review of Service Income was undertaken by Deloitte and The Highland Council. The Highland Council received no charge following agreement with Deloitte that this would be very useful work experience for their Assistant Manager.
HI-Scot has been in existence since 2006, though up until 2010 was under the name of Western Isles Credit Union. The name was changed to HI-Scot to reflect that fact that we'd moved to a position of serving all of the Highlands & Islands, and indeed anyone who lives or works in this area can apply to join us.
Did you know that France is looking for dairy products, the demand for craft beer is high in Thailand, and Switzerland is in need of engineering services? You can find out where in the world the demand for your product or service is on the Department of International Trade website. With over 17,000 export sales lead, you can also pitch your company to overseas buyers who are looking for products and services like yours.
Scotland's Rural College is the first institute in the UK to have used cutting-edge technology to log students' progression towards operating forest machinery. At the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2019 (4-8 March), four forestry apprentices have been using simulators at the Barony campus in Dumfries to work their way through a TimberSkills training course, developed by the machinery giant John Deere to monitor the progress of trainee foresters as they hone their skills before moving to real forest machines.
