Scots co-habiting laws to get shake up?
An interesting suggestion that Scots Law may be updated to give better rights to cohabiting couples: Spouses to get greater rights where there is no will THE spouses of people who die without leaving a will are to be given greater rights under a “radical” shake-up of inheritance laws put forward by legal experts today. [...]
Nairn 2008: According to Flickr
Something about photos brings a sense of pathos to me – moments caught that are gone forever; people and places as they were then; time frozen in the fragility of a medium. As the internet’s biggest photo site, Flickr manages to tell a story of story of people whose lives crossed with Nairn in some [...]
Fergus Ewing eyes Streetbase
A report from the Hamilton Advertiser has Fergus Ewing singing its praises: MSP is full of praise for town’s StreetBase project It’ll be interesting to see if he tries to encourage Streetbase working up here – especially as one budget the Highland Council seemed very hesitant to cut was their half-million budget for tackling anti-social [...]
Nairn Councillors
I’d earlier been on the Highland Council website to get what details I could on Nairn’s councillors. Not really a news post this – I just wanted to put something here for my own and general reference. Here are the relevant links: All councillors A-Z Ward 19: Nairn Councillors: Laurie Fraser Liz MacDonald Graham Marsden [...]
Highland Council funding black hole drama
Lots of drama regarding the Highland Council’s current inability to balance it’s books was covered in yesterday’s press: Cut of £3m still leaves council with shortfall of £13m Council u-turn on antisocial budget The trouble for Nairn being the removal of Nairn planning office, allegedly saving the Highland Council a whopping £50,000 per year – [...]
Nairn residents increasingly frustrated with Nairn councillors
The Gurn publishes a couple of pieces relating to frustration with how Nairn’s councillors are leaving the town with a confused image – derelict buildings along the A96, and ad hoc developments that seem to underline the whispers of backhanders from developers: The first is from Iain Fairweather who runs Visit Nairn: Can we have [...]