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News published June 2014

Young artists have designs on Athletes’ Village walls with unique poster collection
Published 26 Jun 2014
Around 9,000 brightly coloured posters have been produced by school children across Scotland to hang in the bedrooms at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes Village.
Inverness Bank Street to re-open for summer
Published 25 Jun 2014
Motorists are being advised that Bank Street in Inverness will revert to a through-road, re-opening to two-way traffic on Monday 30 June at 1pm for the months of July and August.
Inverness pupils say a big thank you to tiny teachers
Published 25 Jun 2014
Primary school pupils from Inverness gathered to say a big thank you to the area’s tiniest teachers at a Baby Celebration held by Action for Children Scotland and Highland Council yesterday [Tuesday, June 24].
Pupils launch Clean-Up Highland campaign
Published 25 Jun 2014
Around 60 pupils and teachers from Kilchuimen Primary School carried out in clean-up along the Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus on Monday
Seized power tools destroyed
Published 25 Jun 2014
Twenty-five pieces of equipment, including chainsaws, generators and power washers, originally seized by Police from a group of itinerant traders, and that were subsequently found by Highland Council Trading Standards to fail to meet safety standards, are to be destroyed.
Public drop-in day for Tain School consultation
Published 25 Jun 2014
The public are being invited to have their say on the site for a new 3 to 18 school campus in Tain.
Pupils consign time capsule to hidden basement in Inverness school.
Published 25 Jun 2014
A time capsule has been consigned to a previously unknown basement in Central Primary School, Inverness to remain there for the next 50 years.
From the Copacabana to the Camanachd Cup
Published 25 Jun 2014
An historic set of bagpipes which have been played on the Brazilian beaches at Copacabana and the Grand Canyon, having survived the rigours of the first World War, will be centre-stage as shinty comes to the fore in the celebration of the tenth Blas Festival.
Saving energy is child’s play in Fort William schools
Published 24 Jun 2014
Pupils at six Fort William primary schools are this week being visited by a touring Energy Saving Play production which aims to get the message across to young people to save energy, save money and save the planet.
The Highland Council lead the charge for resource efficiency in business
Published 23 Jun 2014
The Highland Council is to take a lead role in helping businesses save money, be more competitive and reduce their environmental impact by using resources more efficiently, by backing the national Resource Efficiency Pledge scheme.