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DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 4th) sold 3,091 breeding ewes and lambs at their annual Blackface & Cross ewes, gimmers, ewe lambs sale. Blackface ewes (1,058) sold to £60 gross from the dispersal of the Balloan flock, Farr.
Council and E.ON work together to improve Highland homes. Home owners in four Highland Council Wards are the first to be offered free energy saving measures in a £6.4 million project with energy company E.ON.
Getting a better deal on air travel for rural regions, such as the Highlands and Islands, was top of the agenda for The Highland Council Leader Drew Hendry when he addressed delegates at the General Assembly of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions in St Malo, Brittany, France. Councillor Hendry won the support of delegates for further research to be carried out by CPMR for present to the European Commission.
Energy/ Business Services: Staff from HIE have been back in Aberdeen this week as part of our ongoing discussions with oil & gas sector businesses. As previously reported there are several promising leads, based on the increasing awareness of the north as a strategic and cost-effective location from which do business.
Rural Affairs Secretary sets out thinking on implementation. The new CAP deal could lead to more support for the Scottish beef sector and new entrants to farming.
The Scottish Parliament has called for the UK’s extra European farming subsidy to be allocated to Scotland in its entirety. The ‘convergence uplift’ is worth tens of millions of euros a year and during a debate on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, MSPs backed the Scottish Government’s calls for the additional cash to come to Scotland.
Up to 1,000 new jobs have been announced by First Minister Alex Salmond as part of a large recruitment drive by international company, Teleperformance. The First Minister has welcomed the move by Teleperformance to generate up to 1,000 new jobs in Scotland, taking their Scottish workforce to more than 4,000.
£20 million distributed to local councils. Local authorities have now been allocated their share of a £20 million pot to help support Scottish households in the face of UK Government Welfare Reforms.
A new action plan aiming to cut all waste in Scotland by 7% by 2017 and 15% by 2025 will improve competitiveness and could save businesses billions of pounds. Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead outlined the benefits of using our resources more efficiently during a major speech to the Scottish Resources Conference.
One of Scotland’s leading bankers has been appointed to head the Scottish Government’s national programme to help the hardest to reach communities get better connected. Mark Tate, formerly HSBC’s Head of Commercial and Business Banking in Scotland, has this week taken up the post of Development Director for Community Broadband Scotland (CBS).
Shaping the future for the fishing industry. The Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead outlined his vision for the future success of the fishing industry in his speech to the Scottish Fisherman’s Federation (SFF).
PPP have 4 Modern Apprenticeships available at level 2 Playwork and Administration level 2 & 3. This is an opportunity for an employer to recruit and employ a young person who they would release one day a week/fortnight to study at our centre towards their qualification.
Test purchasing operations to take place in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Caithness and Sutherland areas this weekend. Police Scotland Highland and Islands Division will be carrying out test purchasing operations in the Badenoch and Strathspey, and Caithness and Sutherland areas of the Division this coming weekend.
The future management of an Outer Hebrides island by its own community has today (Thursday October 3rd) taken another step forward thanks to a grant from the Scottish Land Fund (SLF). Two years ago, Fred Taylor, the owner of Scalpay, off Harris, offered the island as a free gift to its 300 residents.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 2nd) sold 746 store cattle at their annual show and sale of native and continental store cattle, including an Aberdeen Angus section. The judge, Mr Connon, Skilmafilly, Ellon, awarded the continental champion to a 460kg Limousin cross bullock from Messrs J Munro & Son, Invercharron, Ardgay, realising £1,320.
Trading Standards officers from The Highland Council and Police Scotland are asking Highland residents to think again before they consider buying potentially lethal power tools that are being offered for sale door to door and from the back of vans. Following reports of generators, chainsaws and power washers being offered for sale by itinerant traders in the Nairn, Skye and the Badenoch & Strathspey areas, officers acted last week and 25 items were seized.
Asphalt is to be dressed up as Caithness slabs as part of a new operation to improve the south pedestrian area on Union Bridge. The existing concrete slabs are thin and frequently damaged.
The Scottish Government has extended a grant scheme to local authorities and housing associations to help more Scots get green upgrades to their homes this winter. The Green Homes Cashback scheme, managed by the Energy Saving Trust, was launched in November 2012 to give householders cash back towards the cost of measures to make their homes greener.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 1st) sold 37 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (9) averaged 239.2p (+0.4p) and sold to 244p per kg and £1,793.40 gross.
