News archive
News published September 2010
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Council get tough to create a litter free Highlands
Published 20 Sep 2010Highland Councillors are being asked to adopt a zero tolerance approach to enforcement of littering and fly-tipping. A report to the TEC Services Committee on Thursday recommends that: _
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Council to test care home market for Muir of Ord and Tain
Published 15 Sep 2010The Highland Council’s Housing and Social Work Committee has unanimously agreed to seek expressions of interest from the independent sector to provide modern and high quality residential care servic
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Work starts on Nether Lochaber slipway
Published 15 Sep 2010Work started this week on emergency repairs to the lifeline Corran Ferry at Nether Lochaber with the good news for users that , following consultation with the local community, The Highland Council ha
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Inverness city – West Link
Published 15 Sep 2010A Stakeholder Group, set up to examine and agree solutions for completing the Inverness City – West Link road between the A9/A96 and the A82 trunk roads, is making progress with identifying options
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Freedom of Kingussie
Published 15 Sep 2010The Highland Council is to bestow the title of Freeman, a prestigious honour which is rarely presented, to a Kingussie man in recognition of his outstanding dedication to many aspects of his local com
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Self Directed Support seminar
Published 14 Sep 2010More than 80 people from groups and organisations offering social care services in the Highland area attended the Creating Control: A Discovery of Self Directed Support seminar in Inverness this week
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Council nominations for CNPA
Published 14 Sep 2010The Highland Council has nominated Badenoch and Strathspey councillors Jaci Douglas and Gregor Rimell to serve on the new board of the Cairngorms National Park Authority until May 2012.
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School “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” winner receives prize
Published 14 Sep 2010Rayanne Truscott from Inverness High School has won first prize for her school in The Highland Council Waste Aware Team’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” competition held earlier this year at th
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Forum to focus on work with young people
Published 14 Sep 2010The work of the local Youth Action Team will be in the spotlight at the Cromarty Firth Ward Forum being held in Kiltearn Parish Church Hall in Evanton on Thursday 16 September at 7.30pm. Local Youth A
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Call for community transport scheme in Black Isle and Dingwall
Published 14 Sep 2010The Ross-shire Transport Forum has put its full weight behind a call to develop a community transport scheme for the Black Isle and Dingwall area. At a meeting held in The Highland Council’s Chamb