Beautiful Easter weather
It’s been a great couple of weeks for the weather, with the sun shining throughout the Easter break. While there were a few cool days, the temperature managed to reach towards 20 C on some days. While a gentle rain fell much of yesterday to break things up, today is punctuated with sunny spells and [...]
SNP landslide in Scotland
It’s turning into a landslide for the SNP in Scotland, with the party looking like it’ll be able to form a majority government in Holyrood. Our own Fergus Ewing took a 51.5% majority for the Constituency of Inverness & Nairn, with a swing of over 10% – something the Gurn predicted with it’s own polls. [...]
Nairn: the new Highland Capital
The very funny satirical blog, Inversnecky, recently ran a piece how Sainsbury’s development at Nairn could steal the crown of “Highland Capital” from Inverness: Nairn now better than Inverness: Sainsbury threatens “Highland Capital” tag It could be that the main interchange between the Highland lines to Perth and Aberdeen will move to Nairn, that Eden [...]
Nairn’s traffic lights farce
Trying to travel out of Nairn has become a potential nightmare recently with five new sets of traffic lights being built – we’ve only just started to get back to normal after months of roadworks around Tradespark. The Gurn has been featuring this story heavily, along with a number of detailed posts – the most [...]
Airport business park moving forward
The BBC reports on how development of the business part at Inverness Airport is continuing to move forward, with construction hoped to start later this year, with the first businesses moving in next: Warwickshire firm to spend £30m on Inverness air park A development company has said it would expect to spend £30m in creating [...]
News round up
Well, the snow has finally gone – it’s been a week actually – after we spent most of December living in a white landscape. Truth be told, everything had been white for so long, it was a bit strange to see green again. News reports suggested that it was a record-breaking December for the cold [...]
Development moves up a gear
Looks like development issues have really started to move forward over the past few weeks: 1. Inverness Airport offices advertised ScottishProperty.co.uk has begun advertising office space for lease at the – as yet unstarted – Inverness Business Park development. There’s no mention of actual rents, but hopefully these will be reasonably realistic – Inverness commercial [...]
Coldest night for Nairn tonight?
At half three this afternoon the car was already claiming that it was -5C outside. Figured we were in for a very cold night if that bad so early, and just checked the car – says it’s -10C at 8:30pm, and it’s a clear sky. Wonder how far the thermometer will drop tonight? Either way, [...]
Millbank School and Nairn Academy re-open
Millbank primary school and Nairn Academy are both reopening today despite the bad weather. Bad news for all those pupils hoping for another day off. The BBC reports that schools in eastern Scotland remain more severely affected by the weather and many remain closed. The Beeb also reports temperatures in Inverness falling to -13C last [...]
Highland School closures: Nairn schools closed
UPDATE: The PIN system no longer appears to be working – instead, simply visit the Highland Council website on school closures here for more information: http://www.schoolclosures.highlandschools.org.uk/ Millbank School and Nairn Academy are both confirmed closed today, so I presume Rosebank will also be closed. There’s been no information on the Highland Council website since at [...]