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 [...]
Nairn High Street: No threat from Sainsburys?
The work on the new Sainsburys is well under way, and there are conintued mutterances about the ability of the store to kill the town’s High Street. However, if that’s going to be the case there’s no obvious sign of any worry – the High Street has probably never been better occupied by shops, with [...]
Highland Expo leeches on HC
I’m sure the Highland Expo was a wonderful and important event. But why on earth was the Highland Council held responsible for funding part of it? Even more so, why is Highland Expo demanding a further £198,000 from the Highland Council? Forget the glowing job and income stats – the Highland Council should be responsible [...]
Inverness airport flying to Siciliy with Newmarket Holidays
Looks like Newmarket Holidays have added Sicily as a holiday destination flying from Inverness airport for 2011. That’s a nice change because it appears to offer more of a family experience holiday. In other words, beaches, pools, as well as culture. Which Newmarket’s holidays abroad tend not to offer (except the holidays to Jersey – [...]
DST changes debate
The BBC reports on some of the pros and cons of Britain no longer using Daylight Saving Time. Key points it raises is that farmers are not particularly concerned about whether we use DST or not, and that accidents actually lowered on previous experiments – a rise in the morning, but more than offset by [...]
The Aurorae are coming!
Potentially, anyway: Sun unleashes huge solar flare towards Earth The Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, observers say. The eruption is a so-called X-flare, the strongest type; such flares can affect communications on Earth. Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft recorded an intense flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation emanating from a sunspot. [...]
Grumpy Northerners
Surely it’s not suggesting that the only two councils in the UK not allowing staff off work for the royal wedding are Scotland’s most northerly? No Royal wedding holiday for two Scottish councils Two Scottish councils have said they will not let staff have a day off to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and [...]
Airport railway station edges closer
The BBC reports on a Q&A at Holyrood that reveals Network Rail and Transport Scotland are discussing plans to open two new railway stations, one of which would be at Dalcross at the airport. It’s certainly welcome that we could see a rail connection to the airport, though like Dyce at Aberdeen, it’s going to [...]
Family Days Out
As the weather remains calm and we move to Spring and Summer (no doubt with a break for snow in February) I’ve been looking for family days out. As it looks like Bumbles is no longer around, I’ve been keeping an eye out for other places to take the kids at the weekend. The website [...]
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 [...]