Time for one community council in Nairn?
The Gurn is pushing harder on the issue of a single Nairn community council, and has launched a new blog to focus on the issue and develop the arguments: Time for a single community council for Nairn!.
Graisg makes an attempt to be fair by providing an “against” argument, but I’m not convinced there is one [...]
Councillors delay Sainsburys – incompetence?
The Highland Council is reportedly delaying the development of the new Sainsburys, first through not serving legal documents on time, and then trying to decide how to use the £250k regeneration money that comes with the successful application.
More at the P&J: Sainsbury’s payout holds up work
If the Highland Council were a private company, those responsible [...]
Highlands: elitist about Gaelic?
It’s over a month ago that concerns were raised within the Highland Council about the amount of money being spent on Gaelic.
A big issue seems to be how the Highland Council and Scottish government co-ordinate – according to last years budget report, of the £600+ million spending, £500 million of that was provided by the [...]
The Pylons are coming!
So the Scottish government has finally rubber stamped the power line upgrade between Beauly and Denny: Power line upgrade given go-ahead.
Certainly I’ve seen a lot of passionate protesting about the issue, both around Stirling as well as the Highlands, as people become horrified at the idea of taller pylons marching across the Cairngorms.
The problem as [...]
Invicta PR’s Mark Cummings in sectarian abuse allegations
Invicta PR’s Mark Cummings is hardly a stranger to controversy – the now failed Carltongate Project in Edinburgh, and the recent Sandown planning application by Deveron are existing legacies.
An ugly new development is being reported by The Times, though, claiming that sectarian abuse was sent from Mark Cummings’ mobile phone to Thomas Docherty, a Labour [...]
Forres gets Wind Farm
The Berry Burn windfarm at Forres has been approved, with coverage at the BBC and Press and Journal.
Previous coverage at the Forres Gazette shows local resitance, and that this is the first of seven on-going wind farm projects around Dava Moor.
My initial reaction is that anyone who objects about wind farms being developed is that [...]
Highland Council push on £60 million budget cuts
Ouch – despite the apparent pain of the recent £13 million cutbacks by the Highland Council, apparently it’s now projecting that it will have to make another £60 million in cuts – with school closures a possibility:
Council faces making cuts of £60m
Here’s a thought – a number of major corporations have been making cuts by [...]
Bank Holiday?
Today is apparently a Bank Holiday – the Scottish Government’s website clearly lists 25th May 2009 as a statutory Bank Holiday.
So how come Scotland is going to work as normal today?
Boundary Commission carves up the Highlands
Quite incredible proposals by the boundary commission to slice the Highlands into just 3 pieces – with one poor sod of an SMP expected to cover something in the range of “everything north of the Black Isle” in Scotland (see image above).
The article covers the general outrage from the local politicians:
Boundary plans ‘utter madness’
In the [...]
BNP targets Nairn
A surprise on the doorstep this morning – a promotional leaflet from the BNP trying to gain voter attention.
I couldn’t help notice a few things, though:
“British Jobs for British Workers”
That’s great – now will the BNP let us know how they are going to motivate dole-cheque Britain to taking those boring not-very-interesting jobs that take [...]
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