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 [...]
Nairn gets seriously NICE
The Gurn reports that the recent community uprising against Highland Council’s planning fiascos has resulted in the legal formation of the Nairn Improvement Community Enterprise, or NICE, for short. According to the press release on the NICE website: At a meeting on Thursday 28 October some thirty concerned residents of Nairn, including representatives of all [...]
Back online after internet failure
The failure of the BT failure at the Edinburgh exchange generates a lot of press this morning, not least the fact that the BT broadband subscribers in the Highlands were among those hit. According to reports, BT engineers spent the night fixing the problem, meaning that we were able to get back online this morning. [...]
Streetscape: the final verdict?
So, the barriers are finally removed, traffic is allowed back up the High Street, and Streetscape is finished. Lack of political will and leadsership seems to have left everyone with an attempt at compromise, that pleases no one, and addresses nothing. The big problem is that Nairn was lucky to receive the Streetscape funding, which [...]
Maggot Flats completed
The flats by the maggot have been completed a little while now, with the builders removing the last of their equipment from the site over the past few weeks. Certainly they’ve been no stranger to controversy, and they looked awful going up over the summer. However, they look a lot better now they are completed. [...]
Somerfield refit: paid for with job losses?
Co-op appear to have put another boot in on Nairn. According to staff at the main Co-op owned Somerfield, the refit the place just went through is going to be paid for with job losses. Somewhere there’s a press release with the Co-op posturing that the refit was an investment into the town. Sounded grand [...]
Snow on the hills
The recent clear weather showed off the snow on the mountains around Nairn. The air feels cold already, but it’s likely to get colder still. Just hope the HC has enough grit stock-piled this year.
RAF Lossiemouth to close: Welcome Space Port Lossiemouth?
The strategic defence spending review looks like it confirms at least one of the Moray RAF bases will definitely close: The decision to axe the replacement Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance planes – a project Mr Cameron said had cost more than £3bn and was more than eight years late – puts the future of RAF Kinloss, [...]
One week left for digital switchover
One more week left before the digital switchover completes in the Highlands, with the Rosemarkie transmitter being shut down on October 20th. If you receive Freeview, you will need to retune on that date as well, using the select installation option to go to the default settings, and then doing a rescan. Hopefully, the majority [...]