Ruth Cleland, currently Strategic Engagement Manager with Highlands and Islands Enterprise has been appointed as Corporate Communications Manager with The Highland Council. Ruth was, from April 2008 to October 2014, Head of Communications with Northern Constabulary and before that held the roles of Head of Internal Communications with NHS Highland (2005- 2009) and Public Relations and Communications Manager with the Highland Acute Hospitals Trust (1999-2005).
Nationwide customers are being offered the choice of 0% interest balance transfer deals when they apply for one of their balance transfer credit cards. The building society's credit card offers 26 months' interest free for a transfer fee of 2.4%, but there is also the option to take a 15 month interest free deal, but with a much smaller balance transfer fee of 0.65%.
With less than two months to go until the Scottish referendum, Schroders European Economist, Azad Zangana provides his thoughts on the economic and political challenges of Scottish Independence in this video and below: Scotland will hold an historic referendum that could see it end a 300-year long political and economic union with the rest of the UK. We analyse the political and economic implications for both an independent Scotland and the remaining UK.
People who started their career in the 1990s were paid on average 40% more in real terms in their first 18 years than those who started in the 1970s were at the same stage of their career, a new report from ONS has found. The article uses inflation-adjusted earnings data to see how the pay of people who were 21 in 1995 has fared over the period to 2013, by which time the workers concerned were aged 39.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday (Thursday 3 July 2014) announced a three-year pay deal following on from protracted negotiations with BT. The union, who represents more than 45,000 non-management BT staff, has been in top-level talks with the company since February this year.
Wallpaper Sale Now on at W & D Ross Paint Spectrum, Couper Square, Thurso. Up to 50% off all stocked wallpapers Large selection of sale bundles now also available Visit us to see some great offers.
The Highland Council and Contractor ISS have put in place measures to improve standards of grass cutting in public open spaces and cemeteries in the Highlands. The move has come about following recent unprecedented levels of complaints about standards of grass cutting which were received by Elected Members and the Council in the past month.
Over the year to November 2013, the rates of 16-19 year olds who were not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) decreased in all 32 local authority areas. Scotland's Chief Statistician today released estimates of young people aged 16-19 who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) at a local authority level in Scotland.
Flavours ice Cream Shop At John O'Groats has been a huge success and scored a hit with the public. with so much enthusiasm for the shop a new one has been set up in Thurso and will open its doors on Wednesday 2nd July 2014 at 2.00pm.
The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund (CNSF), a grant body funded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), received its second instalment of £300k at a recent stakeholder event held in the new low level waste repository vault at the Dounreay site. This funding is the latest instalment of the NDA's £4M community benefit package being provided via DSRL.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 1st) sold 53 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (36) averaged 195p (-4.2p) and sold to 216p per kg and £1,457.80 gross.
Mobile app will help millions of farmers. High-tech Scots excellence will help tens of millions of farmers across Africa to solve animal health issues, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed today.
Eon has switched on the 50MW Camster wind farm in Caithness, Scotland. The wind farm lies between Lybster and Watten and has 25 Vestas V80 turbines.
· Over five million 18-24 year olds (66 per cent) are saving regularly each month · Average young savers has around £3,200 set aside · Less than one per cent say that their financial priority is to put money into a pension Young Britons are bucking the trend of the generation before them by choosing to save rather than spend, according to new figures out today. The findings indicate that over five million 18-24 year olds, approximately 66 per cent of the age group, manage to put money aside each month into savings or investments, each putting aside £204 on average.
FM welcomes potential for more than £5 billion Chinese investment. First Minister Alex Salmond has welcomed a cross-strait Chinese delegation to Edinburgh, as they explore investment opportunities in Scotland - including a £5 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Scottish company.
Ensuring fish quotas are managed for the common good is at the centre of a new consultation launched today. Fish quotas are the amount of fish that may be landed by our fishing vessels.
European Commission responds to government request. Another 59 Scottish fishing vessels, which fish for prawns in inshore waters, will no longer be subject to European time at sea limits.
A £200,000 fund which will help attract international visitors to Scotland has been launched by Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing. The second round of the Scottish Clan Event Fund will support the delivery and planning of local clan events over the Year of Food and Drink in 2015, Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016 and Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017.
The National Audit Office is not convinced that the Government sufficiently protected consumers' interests by awarding without competition £16.6 billion worth of early contracts to eight renewable generation projects at risk of investment delay. This decision may provide higher returns to contractors than needed to secure the investment and also limits the amount of remaining budget subject to competition in later rounds.
Suppliers will need to be clear about whether or not green tariffs provide environmental benefits Calls for suppliers to improve transparency about what these tariffs offer and provide better evidence that they are supplying renewable power Announcement is a further step forward following Ofgem's commitment to make the energy market simpler, clearer, fairer Ofgem is proposing changes to the green tariffs market to ensure that consumers are empowered in making the right decisions. These changes will ensure that suppliers clearly inform their customers and provide evidence of whether or not there will be environmental benefits from a particular tariff.
