DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 11th) sold 5,178 store sheep. Lambs (3,538) averaged £49.66 and sold to £88 gross for Beltex crosses from Dulsie Farm, Glenferness.
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Experts estimate improvements on last year.
Household electricity and gas tariffs to increase by average of 8.2%. Changes reflect increasing cost of buying wholesale energy, paying to deliver it to customers' homes and government-imposed levies collected through energy bills SSE will implement a series of changes to its household energy tariffs on 15 November 2013.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 9th) sold 921 weaned calves at their first annual district ballot show and sale. The judge, Mr J.
Scotland Agriculture Rural Development Statistics. Latest figures highlight toll taken by poor winter.
Employers in Caithness have made great savings in advertising their vacancies since we set up the recruitment section in our forum. Using our message board jobs section is simple and effective due to the large and growing audience on Caithness.org pages including this business section.
Scotland’s regional airport operator HIAL recorded 1.3 million passengers last year, delivered an improved financial performance, and invested more than £8 million upgrading its 11 airports. The figures are among the highlights in the company’s annual report and accounts for 2012/13.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 8th) sold 49 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (27) averaged 236.7p (-2.5p) and sold to 258p per kg and £1,806.00 gross.
The Highland Council has fully endorsed the need for a national strategy and a long term campaign aimed at tackling littering and fly-tipping. In a submission to the Scottish Government’s consultation on “Towards a litter-free Scotland”, the Council backs stronger penalties for littering and fly-tipping and increased emphasis on education and awareness.
Boosting skills essential for tackling joblessness and improving well-being, says OECD. The low-skilled are more likely than others to be unemployed, have bad health and earn much less, according to the first OECD Survey of Adult Skills Countries with greater inequality in skills proficiency also have higher income inequality.
A call for people’s early suggestions of sites and ideas for the new Caithness and Sutherland Local Development Plan – CaSPlan – is in to its last fortnight. It is therefore important that people take up The Highland Council’s invitation to submit suggestions for inclusion in the new plan for the future of Caithness and Sutherland, before the deadline on 17 October 2013.
Since opening in 2000, the ERI has become a dynamic research organisation with a young, highlymotivated team, and the ethos of multi- and inter-disciplinarity is securely embedded. Today, the ERI has become a focus for promoting excellence in research in the region, largely due to the ability of its investigators to work with stakeholder, commercial, academic and educational organisations alike.
Highland Opportunity are coming to Thurso with a 2 day business Start-up woorkshop open to anyone thinking about starting a new business. Join our two day workshop where you will learn how to develop your ideas into a practical and effective plan to launch your business.
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.
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.
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.