On Monday 1st December 2008 Caithness Horizons reopened the magnificently restored Thurso Town Hall and Carnegie Library to the public. The new museum and community facility has not only captured the past and brought it to life through displays and interpretation, it also provides a real flavour of Caithness today to tempt visitors to find out more about this diverse county.
Mey Selections won the Best Retail Initiative award last week at the NEC in Birmingham. The award, given by Radio 4's food and farming programme is seen as the Oscar of the food and farming world and it acknowledges Mey Selections outstanding achievement with customers on a national scale.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (December, 2nd) sold 77 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (40) averaged 162.5p (-15.7p) and sold to 171p per kg and £1,164.40 gross.
Monday 1 December is a significant date in the local calendar, as it marks the reopening of the Thurso Town Hall and Carnegie Library. Magnificently restored, it now houses Caithness Horizons, an outstanding new museum and community facility for Scotland's most northerly county.
An 11-week period of public consultation begins on Monday 1 December to agree a development masterplan for the Nigg oil complex, Easter Ross. The public has until 16 February, next year, to have their say on options for the future of the site as a multi-user facility.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 27th) sold 2,292 store lambs, breeding and feeding sheep. Lambs (1,482) averaged £30.26 and sold to £51 gross for Crosses from Shop Farm, Scotscalder, Thurso.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has developed, with Government, a 10-point Plan to support economic activity during the current difficulties. The aim is to help the economy whilst also protecting the environment and the health and well being of communities across Scotland.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November 25th) sold 110 prime cattle at its Christmas Show & Sale sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland, Scot JCB, John M. Munro Butchers, MacRae & Dick Landrover Centre, Aberdeen Journals, Highland Industrial Supplies, Highland Tractors, and Harbro Farm Sales and judged by Mr.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 19th) sold 419 weaned calves and store cattle and 136 OTM cattle. Bullocks (237) averaged 159.1p and sold to 205.8p per kg and £790 gross.
The Highland Council, NHS Highland and Jobcentre + joined forces yesterday (18 November 2008) to discuss ways they can work better together at getting people back into and in retaining employment. The event entitled ~Building a Fairer & Healthier Highland~ brought together over 80 participants from Government and local agencies to look at the positive health impact of work and the way services in Highland that assist people into employment needed to be adapted or created.
The Highland Council is giving top priority to tackling the impacts on Highland communities of the Credit Crunch and large rises in energy bills. A task force of councillors and officials has been set up to effectively respond to the downturn in the economy.
Plans by The Highland Council to modernise and significantly extend home care services to cope with more referrals and provide 24/7 cover take a step forward this week. The Council has already embarked on a wide-ranging programme to modernise its own in-house home care service to ensure wider and better access to services and to support more people in their own homes for longer.
Kate Birch, The Highland Council's Children's Services Manager for Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey, has been chosen at the Council's Employee of the year. She received her prize at the Council's annual Quality Awards, held at the North Highland College, Thurso, on Monday night.
FORT WILLIAM, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd, (November, 7th) sold 489 rams at its annual sale of rams. Blackface shearlings (239) sold to £900 gross from Craig Farm, Straiton, Maybole.
Articles in this month's publication include: A word from Stuart Chalmers, NDA Site Programme Mananger (Dounreay) PFR's electrical strip out Apprentices help Dunnet Forest count its visitors Dounreay's Health and Safety Week 2008 See it at www.dounreay.com/news/2008-11-03/novembers-dounreay-news-out-now.
A pre-Christmas appeal with a difference is going out to people in Caithness - recycle your cooking fats, oils and greases. The appeal has been prompted by the discovery of large amounts of illegally-dumped fat in the county's sewer system and waste water treatment works, in particular Thurso and Castletown.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 6th) sold 2,992 store lambs, breeding and feeding sheep. Lambs (1,167) averaged £27.43 and sold to £52 gross for Suffolk crosses from Park Farm, Strathpeffer.
Work has started on the first Clinical Research Facility (CRF) in the Highlands and Islands to provide a specialist environment for carrying out clinical research with a view to creating new products and services in the health sector. The CRF is located at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness which was developed and is owned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and accommodates some of the healthcare and medical related organisations in and around the city.
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. There are many things we can do as individuals to reduce our impact on climate change but if we act together as communities we can do even more.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 5th) sold 516 weaned calves and store cattle and 66 OTM cattle. Bullocks (289) averaged 143.5p and sold to 183.2p per kg and £860 gross.