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 [...]

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.

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.

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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We’ll be drawing a name from all those who interact with the site by [...]

300 jobs ‘at risk’ in minimum pricing plan

STV – Leading whisky maker Whyte and Mackay has warned that Government plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol could force it to cut 300 jobs and close its bottling plant in Grangemouth. The drinks manufacturer’s chief executive, John Beard, told Holyrood’s Health Committee on Wednesday the controversial proposal could also leave the firm [...]

MSP urges Network Rail to ‘play its part’ in crossing safety

ON the day that Network Rail called for a new statutory section on level crossings within the driving test, a Highland MSP has reminded the company that there is one part of Britain where they have been reluctant to place barriers on crossings to help improve the safety of the public.
SNP MSP Dave Thompson, urged [...]

FOUND: Deborah Mousdale, Inverness

UPDATE: Police have confirmed that Deborah Mousdale has been traced in Inverness City Centre.
Police in Inverness are anxious to trace the whereabouts of Deborah Moulsdale, (35) from the Merkinch area of Inverness, who was reported missing from Leachkin Road in the city on 25 February 2010. She is 5ft 5in, of average build, blue/grey eyes, [...]

X-Factor invite for starry-eyed trio

John O’Groat Journal – THREE lucky Wick youngsters have stars in their eyes after getting invited backstage to meet the stars of this year’s X-Factor Live Tour in Aberdeen. Coran Sutherland (10), from Harbour Quay, and his friends eight-year-old Eve MacDonald (8), of South Road, and Fiona Steven (10), of Thurso Road, were asked backstage [...]

Norovirus confirmed at Wick hospital

John O’Groat Journal – A SMALL number of norovirus cases have been confirmed at Caithness General Hospital, it has emerged. A spokesperson for NHS Highland yesterday told the Caithness Courier that “staff are managing the situation and infection control measures are in place” to tackle the virus which is also known as the winter vomiting [...]

A9 death crash driver jailed for three years

BBC – A man who admitted causing the death of another motorist by dangerous driving has been jailed for three years. Patrick MacFadden, 52, from Inverness, overtook a car in his van and tried to pass a lorry on the A9 in November 2008.

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