Employers back youth jobs event. Range of help on offer at Aviemore’s Hub.
Employers back youth jobs event Range of help on offer at Nairn Community Centre Young people are being urged to come along to a ‘Jobs and How To Get Them’ event aimed at helping them into work, training or sharpen up their job seeking skills. The free event has been arranged by a number of organisations who support young people in the local area and has been backed by employers and learning providers from across the region.
Two years into its major contract to complete the clean-up and shutdown of Dounreay, the consortium in charge of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd is now revising its programme of work to accommodate changes being made by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The NDA awarded a contract in April 2012 to Cavendish Dounreay Partnership.
Week commencing 5th May 2014 Energy & Business Services: Offshore wind developer Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd (MORL) held a “meet the buyer” event in Wick this week. The event, held in association with CNSRP partner Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise, featured presentations from lead partner EDPR and Tier 1 supply chain company Global Energy Group, as well as offering businesses the opportunity for one-to-one discussions.
MAKLAB is one of several projects to benefit from SSE’s new £1m Highland Sustainable Fund. It received an award of £40,000 (90% match funding) to establish a MAKLab North workshop at Wick High School and mobile MAKLAB to deliver access and skills training in digital fabrication technology across the Highland region.
At its meeting on Thursday 8th May 2014 Highland council made several changes to the committee structure and a number of councillor positions. The changes are part of the moves to cut costs and make more efficiencies.
Over the next decade, SSE expects to invest between £5-10bn in the Highlands and Islands. We are committed to enabling the local supply chain to benefit from this investment in the areas where we work.
With the roll-out of superfast broadband set to transform the Highlands and Islands, Scotland’s largest and most ambitious creative industries event is offering its widest ever range of activity, with digital at its core. Leading industry figures from around the world, will be in Inverness for goNORTH 4-5 June to discuss and share experiences on how increased access to high speed broadband and mobile services have changed the way people watch film, listen to music and read.
John Erskine has been selected to contest the 2015 general election for the Labour Party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. John was selected on Saturday (3 May 2014) at a meeting of the local Labour Party in Helmsdale.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (May, 6th) sold 38 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (29) averaged 204.2p (-6.5p) and sold to 220p per kg and £1,455.00 gross.
Due to family illness, Harkirk Bridal (est 2011) is closing down. They are offering massive discounts on all their remaining stock.
The Highland Council is seeking to recruit Directors to the Board of High Life Highland (HLH), to provide strategic direction and governance to the company and expert advice and support to its management team in developing and promoting opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing. High Life Highland (HLH) is a charity registered in Scotland and a company, limited by guarantee, wholly owned by the Council.
Companies from the Highlands and Islands are grasping the opportunity to give Europe and beyond a flavour of what they have to offer when they showcase their produce at the Seafood Expo Global 2014 in Brussels. This global annual event which takes place this week (Tuesday 6th May – Thursday 8th May 2014) attracts over 25,000 seafood buyers along with exhibitors from more than 70 countries.
Already the market leader in rolling out smart meters for credit customers, British Gas prepares to trial the technology for 'pay as you go' The Energy Minister, Baroness Verma, visits British Gas' Smart Centre and Training Academy in Leeds to meet staff who will deliver the 'pay as you go' smart meters. The technology will allow British Gas Pay As You Go Energy customers to top up on the move from a mobile phone, online, or from home once they've had a smart meter installed British Gas is preparing to start testing innovative new technology this summer which will allow pay-as-you-go customers in future to top up anywhere once they have had a smart meter fitted.
Motorists are set to see further progress being made on the Kessock Bridge as carriageway surfacing works using a state-of-the-art material which started on Sunday 4th May 2014 The £13.2m improvement programme which is about to enter into week 13, - the first day of surfacing took place on Sunday 4th May. The second layer will be put down on Tuesday 6th May.
• This article explains how the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks making loans. • Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions — banks do not act simply as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’ central bank money to create new loans and deposits.
The £50 banknote carrying the portrait of Sir John Houblon, the first Governor of the Bank of England, has been withdrawn from circulation as of 30 April 2014. This withdrawal was first announced on 16 January 2014.
The TaxPayers' Alliance has this morning re-launched its online Debt Clock. Although there is a welcome economic recovery, our Debt Clock offers a stark reminder of the urgency of Britain's national debt crisis, and the need for politicians to wage a War on Waste to get spending under control.
• Money is essential to the workings of a modern economy, but its nature has varied substantially over time. This article provides an introduction to what money is today.
88% of people open to using online services with appetite for more online options. Concerns about data security - 17% avoid online service due to privacy fears – and government's ability to deliver Online government services are proving popular but more must be done to reassure the public about data security according to a survey by Deloitte and polling company YouGov.