Google Street View covers the north and north-east

Every nook and cranny of the Highlands, Moray and Aberdeenshire has been revealed on Google’s Street View today. The search giant’s project to map the streets of the world in pictures has now covered the whole of the UK.
It has been some two years since the Google camera car swept the UK snapping images of [...]

Highland airline in no comment on service

BBC – Highland Airways has refused to comment on its future involvement in a service between Cardiff and Anglesey in Wales. The airline has been in discussions with a potential investor after hitting financial troubles made worse by severe weather affecting flights.

Info law breaches warning

Highland News – A WATCHDOG says that public authorities in the Highlands breached the law in over half the Freedom of Information requests made to them. Since 2005, the Scottish Information Commissioner Kevin Dunion has reviewed 49 cases and found that in 57 per cent of those the authorities had breached the law in some [...]

Jaw break punch victim slams sentence

Highland News – A YOUNG waiter who has been left with metal plates holding his jaw together after a vicious assault by a young boxer has hit out at a sheriff for not sending his attacker to prison. Ryan Watt escaped detention because Sheriff Ian Abercrombie felt the young thug would not get the rehabilitation [...]

Warning over buried marker cairns on Ben Nevis

BBC – Cairns used by walkers to navigate in poor conditions on Ben Nevis are almost completely covered in snow, a mountain safety officer has warned. Heather Morning, of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, said the three markers indicate a change in bearing around the top of Gardyloo Gully.

Tornado lands safely after engine problems

BBC – A Tornado has landed safely at RAF Lossiemouth after suffering engine problems. The alarm was raised on Thursday morning when the Tornado suffered a mechanical failure with one of its two engines over the Highlands.

Taxi attacker must wait to learn fate

BBC – A man who admitted robbing a female taxi driver in Aberdeenshire and dumping her bound and gagged on a road must wait to learn his fate. Lithuanian Artur Rodzevic, 21, attacked Nicola Donald, 33, after she picked him up in Peterhead last September.

Dancing on ice – until more men step up!

Highland News Video – A GLITTERING charity event based on the hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing is set to take place in the Highland capital. But an urgent plea has gone out to more men to get in step. For while the organisers have the judges, glitter ball, choreographers, dance teachers, female contestants and [...]

Adventurer tells of kayak trip around coast

Press and Journal – AN ADVENTURE travel writer yesterday took Moray school pupils on a journey around Scotland’s coastline without having to leave the comfort of the classroom. Brian Wilson shared the stories of his exploits with geography and biology pupils at Buckie High School.

Aviemore pupils are nuts about red squirrels

Press and Journal – BRITAIN’S first interactive red squirrel website was launched yesterday in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park at Aviemore Primary School. The pupils were the first official visitors to the site that allows red squirrel fans to explore, read, chat and comment about all things squirrelly.

Energy firm secures finance deal for Moray wind farm

Press and Journal – The company behind a controversial wind farm in Moray has secured a financing deal worth millions. Renewable Energy Systems (RES) plan to start building the 21-turbine windfarm at Hill of Towie next summer and aim to have it fully operational by spring 2012.

Big entry for festival reading contest

Press and Journal – THE Inverness Music Festival enters a more muted stage today, when competition will be entirely taken up by solo verse and prose reading. But the competition is no less keen, and one class, solo verse for Primary 6 and 7 girls, has 42 entrants.

Council £4m for housing organisations

Press and Journal – Financially-stretched Highland Council has agreed £4million of interest-free loans and grants to housing associations in return for almost 100 new affordable homes. The decision follows last week’s revelation that Scottish Government funding for the purpose is being almost halved, from £32million this year to £17.5million in 2011-12.

Inverness Premium Bonds winner to share fortune with family

Daily Mail – Daily Mail’s £5,000 Premium Bonds winner to share good fortune with family. The latest winner of the Daily Mail’s premium bonds competition will share her prize with her family. Shirley Phillips, 62, from Inverness, heard her telephone ringing as she returned from a shopping trip yesterday morning.

HIE chief’s exit baffles staff

Herald – One of Scotland’s most high-profile quango chiefs is preparing to stand down, leaving many staff at his economic development agency baffled as to why he had to quit because of the location of his family home.
Sandy Cumming will tomorrow depart his post as chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), having been [...]

Paths could retrace Jacobite night march of 1746

BBC – Parts of routes believed to have been followed by Jacobites attempting a night assault could be recreated in a new network of public footpaths. The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) said elements of the ill-fated night march of April 1746 could be a feature of the project at Culloden.

Highlands Monopoly game launched

BBC – A Highlands version of the Monopoly board game is to be created. Residents will be asked to vote on nominated local landmarks to replace the squares better known for streets such as Mayfair and Old Kent Road.

Death crash trial branded ‘a joke’

Press and Journal – Death crash trial branded ‘a joke’. A distraught Moray couple last night branded the trial against the man accused of killing their son “a joke”. Chris and Lynne McRae were in Elgin Sheriff court as Inverness man Robert White was cleared of causing their son Gareth’s death.

Big rise in number of assaults on police

Press and Journal – Statistics released by the Liberal Democrats show a large rise in the number of people reported to the procurator fiscal for assaulting a police officer across the north and north-east.

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