News archive
News published April 2012
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Finalists announced for Scottish Education Awards 2012
Published 16 Apr 2012A Highland school has beaten off stiff competition from across Scotland to be selected as a finalist at the Scottish Education Awards 2012. Portree High School has been shortlisted for the Gaelic Lang
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Registration and postal voting deadlines for Council elections loom
Published 13 Apr 2012Voters are reminded of the deadline for both registering to vote and applying to vote by post in the forthcoming Highland Council elections on 3 May.
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Searching for the Gruffalo in city woods
Published 12 Apr 2012“A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark woods……”Tomorrow (Friday 13 April) children are invited to come and join mouse on his stroll following a fun woodland trail in Culloden Woods that
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Opportunity to watch Black Grouse ritual in Badenoch and Strathspey
Published 12 Apr 2012April is the best time to witness one of the Highland’s most enigmatic wildlife spectacles, Black Grouse on their lek with the male birds displaying and squabbling whilst the females weigh up the co
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New partnership pilot promotes Gaelic for toddlers
Published 12 Apr 2012The Highland Council, the Care and Learning Alliance (CALA), and Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG) are working in partnership as part of a pilot project to develop a vibrant Gaelic 0-3 early years sector acros
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Date pencilled in for re-opening of Stromeferry By-pass
Published 11 Apr 2012Work on making safe the A 890 road between Lochcarron and Kyle following a major rock fall in December, last year, is nearing completion and The Highland Council is targeting Monday 23 April for a ful
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A Fairer Highland
Published 11 Apr 2012The Highland Council has confirmed its ongoing commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and tackling discrimination by publishing its new plan, A Fairer Highland. The plan sets out arrangem
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Artists to be part of Culloden Battle’s anniversary celebrations
Published 11 Apr 2012Culloden Battlefield’s visitor centre will be transformed on Saturday 14 April from 7.30 pm by artists Catherine Bertola and ROGER and REID. The free arts event celebrates the anniversary of the bat
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Fireraising - Cradlehall Primary, Inverness
Published 11 Apr 2012Police are appealing for witnesses following a fire which destroyed a shed at Cradlehall Primary School in Inverness last night.
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Three Wick school projects to proceed in one major contract
Published 11 Apr 2012Highland Councillors have set a target of opening a new secondary school and two new primary schools in Wick by August 2015.