News archive
News published October 2013
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Bird box building in Culloden Woods
Published 11 Oct 2013On Wednesday (16 October) there will be a house building event with a difference when participants get the chance to help our feathered friends as they try their hand at making a wooden bird box.
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Search launched for community champs to star in the home leg of Queen's Baton Relay
Published 10 Oct 2013Queen's baton relay - domestic route (pdf)
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Launch of Inverness Winter Festival Programme
Published 10 Oct 2013The Highland Council has announced details of the programme for this year’s free Inverness Hogmanay Party as the 2013 Inverness Winter Festivals programme got underway today (Thursday) with the star
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Council supports national strategy on littering and fly-tipping
Published 8 Oct 2013The Highland Council has fully endorsed the need for a national strategy and a long term campaign aimed at tackling littering and fly-tipping.
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Highland school kids encouraged to become Natural Explorers
Published 8 Oct 2013Issued by Visit Scotland
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Out a dawn in Strathspey spotting Otters
Published 7 Oct 2013The Highland Council Countryside Rangers are inviting people to join them as they creep about in the early crepuscular hours looking for Otters in their favourite habitat at two events taking place in
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How do you bin yours? New campaign launches to help reduce chewing gum litter
Published 7 Oct 2013PHOTO GALLERY - photos from across the Highlands for the launch of this campaign
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Cromarty School takes the trophy
Published 7 Oct 2013Cromarty Primary School pupils are this year’s winners of the annual ‘Creative Cromarty’ competition organised by the Cromarty Arts Trust. The whole school was involved in designing and making e
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Council keen to receive more suggestions for future planning of Caithness and Sutherland
Published 7 Oct 2013A call for people’s early suggestions of sites and ideas for the new Caithness and Sutherland Local Development Plan – CaSPlan – is in to its last fortnight. It is therefore important that peo
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Highland school forges health and wellbeing links with Bangladesh school
Published 4 Oct 2013An Inverness Primary School is creating a partnership with a school in Bangladesh to further their pupils learning and understanding of health and wellbeing.