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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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.

Youngsters flourish amid instrument tuition fears

Press and Journal – WHILE healthy entry numbers and a high standard of singing and playing have been reported on the first three days of Inverness Music Festival, an online petition deploring the possible loss of instrument tuition at Highland schools has attracted more than 1,000 signatures in less than a week. The petition urges [...]

Two top Highland hotels to offer expertise to others

Two prestigious Highland hotels have formed an international management consultancy to offer their expertise to other private hotel operators. Inverlochy Castle Hotel, on the outskirts of Fort William, and Rocpool Reserve at Inverness, have joined together as Inverlochy Castle Management International (ICMI).

Berth wrangle puts future of dolphin boat in doubt

A LONG-established Inverness dolphin-spotting operator claims he is being forced out of business because his boat is too big for the city’s new multi-million pound marina. Scott Gair, of Moray Firth Dolphin Cruises, runs the city’s sole dolphin-watching boat but the Inverness Harbour Trust has told him to quit the Shore Street quay at the [...]

‘Undesirables’ a blight on the city

BUSINESSES are calling for a limit on the number of houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) in the city centre, amid fears “undesirable characters” are hitting trade. HMO licences are limited in residential areas but are unrestricted in the centre.

Sickness bug disrupts operations at Raigmore

BBC – Visitors have been asked to stay away from the hospital if they feel unwell. A small number of operations planned at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness have been postponed as staff try to control an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug. NHS Highland has also closed wards 7C, 5A and 5C to new admissions.

Apprenticeship scheme success for LifeScan

Press and Journal – The success of a major Inverness company’s apprenticeship scheme has led to more being taken on. LifeScan Scotland’s first modern apprenticeship programme has over the past few months enrolled a further 10 engineering apprentices. The Modern Apprentice Programme gives participants hands-on experience and real-world insight into the diverse business activities of [...]

Children dicing with death by playing on railway tracks

Press and Journal – Children are literally putting their lives on the line by “playing” on railway tracks in Inverness, a councillor has warned. Inverness Central councillor Donnie Kerr said youngsters are using a gap in a security fence to access the line in the Merkinch area of the city.

Army cadets mark 150th anniversary with parade

Press and Journal – HUNDREDS of young Army cadets from across the north paraded through the centre of Inverness on Saturday for a service of thanksgiving to mark the movement’s 150th anniversary. The 400 youngsters, accompanied by their own pipe band, marched from Inverness Castle to the cathedral.

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