The Scottish cabinet was in Wick on monday 14th July 2014..
Week Commencing 14th July 2014 Energy & Business services: We welcomed a new business to the area this week, with Aberdeen-based Process Safety Solutions (PSS) opening a new base at the HIE-owned Wick Business Park. The opening was carried out by John Swinney MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth whilst the Scottish Cabinet was in Wick this week.
Aberdeen-based Process Safety Solutions, the systems life-cycle management specialist supporting the oil and gas sector in the UK and overseas, officially opened its new Wick facility on 15th July 2014 at Wick Business Park in Caithness. The team welcomed John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth.
The Scottish Cabinet are meeting in Wick as part of a series of public question and answer sessions. Members of the public had the opportunity to ask questions of Ministers about 'Scotland's Future'..
Twenty-one food and drink businesses from the Highlands and Islands will attend an unprecedented ‘meet the buyer' event ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The Showcasing Scotland event is the first large scale event of its type to be run for the Scottish food and drink industry.
Passenger numbers at HIAL's regional airports grew by almost 8000 during the last quarter, with the group's island airports driving growth. Latest figures for the last quarter (April - June) show that passenger numbers at HIAL’s 11 airports grew by 7806, an increase of 2.2% on the same quarter last year.
A team of engineers from Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) has completed work to replace a section of overhead line with underground cable at Thurso East, where the Caithness County Show is due to be held this weekend. The move follows a request by the Show's Committee to SHEPD to make access to the site easier.
From councillor Deirdre Mackay, Highland Council ‘This is Brora not Beverley Hills and it's a classic example of what we are now seeing at family events across Highland. ‘Since I first raised this issue in June the responses from Police Scotland become ever stranger.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, (July, 16th) sold 1,261 store cattle and 18 adult head of breeding cattle at their 11th anniversary show and sale. The Judge, Mr D.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 15th) sold 57 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (38) averaged 202.1p (+2.8p) and sold to 219p per kg and £1,489.20 gross.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today broke the ground on the new £48.5 million Wick Community Campus. The facility, which will replace Wick High School, Pulteneytown Academy Primary School, and South Primary School, is part of Scotland's Schools for the Future programme and will receive more than £17 million from the Scottish Government.
Residents and businesses in areas of Ross-shire, Orkney and Sutherland are to join the growing number of people able to access fibre broadband in the Highlands and Islands as part of a publicly funded project. Roll-out started in Buckie in Moray in February and 14,500 premises in Moray and Highland can now get better connected through the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband project.
Engineering students at North Highland College will get the chance to get hands on work experience as part of a new course based in Thurso. The move follows a recommendation by the Commission for Developing Scotland's Young Workforce to increase the number of higher level apprenticeship opportunities and to ensure those undertaking high level qualifications receive enhanced levels of work experience.
Weekly update from CNSRP - week commencing 7th July 2014 Energy & Business services: News today (Friday) that Ofgem has approved the need to construct a subsea electricity cable from Caithness to Moray. This £1.2bn project will enable the transmission of electricity from renewables projects in the north.
SHE Transmission, the electricity transmission subsidiary of SSE plc, has welcomed Ofgem's decision to approve the need for the new transmission link between Caithness and Moray. The new link, which will feature over 100 miles of under ground and subsea cable, is needed to transmit a large volume of electricity from renewable sources in the north of Scotland.
Ofgem gives green light to new £1.2 billion Scottish subsea link and transmission charging reform New link will bring 1.2GW of renewable energy to Britain's electricity network. Ofgem approves new transmission charging methodology, effective from April 2016.
Latest regional and country economic indicators show that the economy across the UK has been improving. Nominal output grew in every region and country between 2009 and 2012 (the latest data available) and this led to the level of nominal output in 2012 surpassing the pre-downturn level in all regions and countries except Northern Ireland.
Today the UK's leading financial capability charity The Money Charity releases its Debt Statistics, giving an overview of the financial situation in the UK. http://themoneycharity.org.uk/debt-statistics/ Borrowers in the UK are paying less interest on their debt than at any point in the last decade despite record levels of lending by banks and building societies, analysis by The Money Charity has revealed.
A local Highland builder is to appear in a new BBC rogue trader consumer programme entitled "How Safe is Your House?" Norman Hughes (recently trading as: Caledonian Roofing and Building and Driveline Paving) has been carrying out shoddy paving work at extortionate prices and ignoring warnings from trading standards officers. To alert consumers, Highland Council trading standards officers seized the opportunity to be featured in a primetime slot for BBC One's How safe is your house? programme.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (July, 8th) sold 42 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (24) averaged 199.3p (+4.3p) and sold to 212p per kg and £1,479.80 gross.