DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 20th) sold 39 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (18) averaged 232.0p (+1.6p) and sold to 241p per kg and £1,634.40 gross.
Dounreay's huge collection of historic documents will be among the first items to be stored in the new archive to be built in Caithness. The National Nuclear Archive is due to be open for business by 2016, said NDA's director for Dounreay, Nigel Lowe.
FLYBE ANNOUNCE NEW SERVICES BETWEEN EDINBURGH AND WICK JOHN O’ GROATS. Flybe franchise partner, Loganair, will be adding an extra two services between Edinburgh and Wick from Friday, September 27 this year.
The Highland Council is advising drivers that the B9176 Struie Road will be temporarily closed to through traffic on Tuesday 27th August 2013 between 0900 hours and 1530 hours. The closure to traffic travelling both north and south is to allow for essential bridge inspections to take place.
The Highland Council has granted planning permission to Global Energy Nigg Ltd. for an extension to the south quayside, to allow new berthing facilities for shipping and the establishment of additional hard standing and temporary lay down areas.
Highland councillors who are members of the Caithness and Sutherland area committee will get an update on Capital projects at their meeting in Golspie on Monday 19th August 2013. The projected end of years spend for 2013/14 is £17,060,666 and includes schools, libraries and office accommodation.
Energy/ Business Services: Scrabster Harbour’s new pier continues to attract business from the energy sector. Following usage of the pier by large oil support vessels the most recent use was by Orkney renewables company Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd, whose prototype tidal device was taken out of the water at Scrabster for scheduled operations and maintenance work.
Scotland People and Society Planning. Cash to help residents have their say in the design of their community.
The Blue Door Coffee Shop and Diner, based in Thurso, Caithness, is a finalist in the Scottish Home Baking Awards that will be staged at the 5* Mar Hall near Glasgow on Saturday 21st September. The Blue Door Coffee Shop and Diner will join thirty-three bakers and establishments that have been shortlisted in eight separate categories that celebrate the best of the best home baking in Scotland.
From 1 October 2013, The Highland Council is to introduce a new set of policies on the use of advertising signs to manage avoiding obstruction of adopted roads, footpaths and verges. Four new policies have received the approval of the Council’s Transport, Environmental and Community (TEC) Services Committee, which cover signs: for footways and footpaths; on roadside verges (subject to Planning and Development Service confirmation of requirements for Advertising Sign Consent); for display of goods for sale; and for street cafes.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 15th) sold 5,345 store lambs and breeding sheep at their annual sale. Suffolk cross lambs (2,957) averaged £62.46 (+£1.14 on the year) and sold to £80.50 gross from Garbeg, Drumnadrochit.
The Highland Council’s Trading Standards is at the leading edge of challenging companies on Internet Delivery Charges, members of the Council’s Transport, Environmental and Community Services were today informed. Councillor Graham Phillips, Chairman of the Council’s TEC Services Committee has welcomed a report to members by Highland Trading Standards on a project about Internet Delivery Charges, he said: “The work that our Trading Standards Team has done over the past year and half is at the cutting edge of Internet retail investigation and was recently highly revered at Cosla.
The Highland Council is to re-launch its Deprived Area Fund to help create employment opportunities and tackle poverty, with the new Area Committees playing a key role in determining how money is spent locally. £440K of funding for each of the next 3 years will be distributed based on the location of the most deprived areas in Highland.
The Highland Council’s Chairman of the Transport, Environmental and Community Services (TEC) Committee Councillor Graham Phillips has welcomed progress being made on the management and maintenance of Highland Council roads. The progress has been made in response to reports by Audit Scotland on Scottish (including Highland) roads maintained by local authorities in 2004 and more recently in June 2012.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 14th) sold 222 store cattle and 58 adult head of breeding cattle. Bullocks (119) averaged 218.7p and sold to 252.9p per kg for a 425kg British Blue cross from Achnahannet, Dulnain Bridge, and £1,290 gross for a pair of 595kg Saler crosses from Shoreton Farms, Culbokie.
Members of The Highland Council’s Planning, Environment and Development (PED) Committee have agreed the Council’s response to the Scottish Government’s first stage consultation on the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP) for 2014 – 2020. The Council anticipates a more detailed second stage consultation in the autumn 2013 from the Scottish Government.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (August, 13th) sold 48 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (18) averaged 230.4p (-2.5p) and sold to 240p per kg and £1,645.00 gross.
A new multi-million pound redevelopment at mainland Scotland's most northerly port, Scrabster Harbour, is already reaping the benefits, only two months after coming into operation. Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd, based in Orkney, has chosen Scrabster as the location for their most recent operations and maintenance work on their prototype tidal turbine, the SR250.
Pilot project tests best ways of fighting liver fluke. A pilot project aimed at preventing and controlling liver fluke in sheep and cattle is being backed by the Scottish Government.
Statistics published today by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) have shown Scotland’s population reached a record total in 2012. The figures, based on 2011 Census data, show that the estimated population of Scotland was 5,313,600 in mid-2012, a rise of 18,200 people since Census Day on 27 March 2011.
