Views sought on proposals for greater resilience to climate change. Members of the public are being asked to give their views on how climate change is currently impacting Scotland.
The music industry has agreed a Code of Good Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has today published the UK Code of Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming. The Code is a significant point in the commitment by the UK music industry to improve transparency around licensing and royalties related to music streaming.
The UK's Youth Mobility schemes with Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea have been expanded, while new schemes with Uruguay and Andorra come into effect. Young Brits will have more opportunities to live, work and study abroad, as changes to the UK's international arrangements with 6 countries come into effect today (31 January 2024).
Introduction of new border controls will help guard against incoming diseases and pests while minimising burdens and costs for traders and consumers. New border controls introduced today will help prevent the import of diseases and pests from animal and plant products Series of new controls will minimise burdens and costs for traders and consumers.
The Council at the Caithness Area Committee agree the roads budget for 2024/25 with exactly the same amount as for 2023/24. Clearly with rapidly increasing costs this will come nowhere near to maintaining the roads to even the poor condition they are now in.
Caithness Committee Members today (Monday 29 January 2024) considered and assessed applications submitted to the area's Community Regeneration Fund. Community Regeneration Funding is an umbrella term for a number of funds that are available for communities/organisations to access in Highland.
Very windy gusting up to 65 miles an hour on Wednesday 31 January 2024 with heavy rain pushing southeastwards through the morning and early part of the afternoon. Scattered showers and sunny spells for the rest of the day.
Businesses and marine organisations in Scotland's coastal communities will benefit from £14 million in grants from the Marine Fund Scotland 2023-24. A total of 91 projects, with grants ranging from just under £1,000 up to £1.6 million, will support innovation and sustainable practices for the marine economy, including work to reduce carbon emissions.
Britain's rise in sickness-related inactivity, and resulting fall in employment, since the start of the pandemic has played out differently across the country - with traditionally low employment areas like Glasgow continuing to record strong jobs growth, but areas with existing high levels of ill-health and disability like West Wales seeing the biggest rises in long-term sickness, according to new Resolution Foundation research published on Monday 29 January 2024. The Foundation's latest Labour Market Outlook examines recent changes to employment and economic inactivity due to ill-health in different parts of the country.
Scotland and City of London to collaborate and seize opportunities for business and investment. First Minister Humza Yousaf will travel to London this week (Monday, 29 January) to take part in a number of events in partnership with the City of London Corporation, including agreeing an enhanced framework to promote Scotland and London as centres of excellence for financial services.
There has been a notable increase in the number of reports of the theft of domestic heating oil and diesel from storage tanks and vehicles during the past 7 days. The reports have come from across the country including our rural communities.
A number of projects in Caithness, Sutherland and Orkney are making a positive impact in their local communities thanks to support from the West of Orkney Windfarm. Last year the developer set up a small donations fund, offering up to £1000 each towards worthwhile programmes in the far north.
A new campaign launched to encourage UK businesses, academics and researchers to apply for Horizon Europe funding kicks off today (Monday 29 January 2024). The government's push to maximise UK participation in Horizon Europe continues today with the start of a new multichannel campaign across social media, podcasts and more in both UK and Europe.
All service leavers will receive a new card to mark their time in the armed forces. The Veterans' Recognition Scheme has a two-phase rollout.
Moves to protect children agreed after four-nations consultation. Plans to ban single use vapes and raise the tobacco age of sale so that no one born on or after 1 January 2009 can ever legally be sold tobacco in Scotland have been unveiled.
On Premise drinks sales have dipped well below last year's levels for a second week, with cold weather adding to the challenges of consumers' slow post-Christmas spending. CGA by NIQ’s Daily Drinks Tracker shows average sales in managed venues in the week to last Saturday (20 January 2024) were 8% behind the same period in 2023.
Back in September last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced it was carrying out inspections. Since then more than half of those checks have identified failings.
Business secretary Kemi Badenoch has confirmed the departure of Post Office chairman Henry Staunton and said issues at the organisation "go beyond the Horizon scandal". She also said it was "better the Post Office had new leadership going forwards" and "it was very sad we came to this conclusion".
Fearless Nat rebel Fergus Ewing hits out at the Scottish Government for imposing a 'metropolitan-designed model of service provision' on the Highlands and declares: 'If my constituents wanted a doormat they would have gone to B&Q. Fergus Ewing has blasted the Scottish Government's GP reforms for the "shockingly" low vaccination rates in the Highlands as a measles outbreak sweeps the UK and Europe.
New figures show applications to the government's Boiler Upgrade Scheme in December jumped by 49% compared to the same month in 2022. Figures for December show applications jumped by 49% year on year.
