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News published December 2015

• Highland nominated for all Cosla Excellence Awards

  Published 31 Dec 2015

  For the first time, The Highland Council’s work has been nominated in all five categories of the Cosla Excellence Awards.

• Changes to planning applications website

  Published 30 Dec 2015

  The refreshed ePlanning Portal - ePlanning.scot - will go live on Wednesday 13 January 2016.

• Council teams step up for walking challenge

  Published 30 Dec 2015

  Staff from The Highland Council recently took part in Paths 4 All’s Step Count Challenge, a team workplace walking competition to encourage people to get more active.

• Community decision makers wanted for rural Inverness and Nairn areas.

  Published 30 Dec 2015

  The Highland LEADER Programme is looking for volunteers to join a new Local Area Partnership (LAP).

• Scoraig Primary Teacher appointed

  Published 29 Dec 2015

  Stuart Benjafield has been appointed as Teacher for Scoraig Primary School by The Highland Council. He takes up his post when Highland Schools re-open on 7 January 2016.

• Highland Council Customer Services Team receive Customer Service Excellence Award

  Published 29 Dec 2015

  Highland Council customer services staff have been praised for achieving and retaining the externally assessed Customer Service Excellence Award since 2010

• Highland Council funding approved for Lochaber community projects

  Published 29 Dec 2015

  Twelve community projects received have received over £18,500 Lochaber Ward Discretionary funding approved by local Members of The Highland Council.

• Chanonry Point improvement works to start

  Published 29 Dec 2015

  Local residents and visitors to Chanonry Point on the Black Isle are reminded that improvement work will start on Tuesday 5 January so access to the popular site will be temporarily restricted.

• Inverness Hogmanay show preview

  Published 23 Dec 2015

  A bumper crowd is expected to gather in Northern Meeting Park Arena, Inverness on 31 December 2015 to welcome the arrival of 2016 as the Inverness Winter Festival reaches its climax with Scotland’s biggest free Hogmanay Party, “The Red Hot Highland Fling”.

• Millburn Academy wins bid for Year of Light competition funding.

  Published 23 Dec 2015

  Following a successful entry in the Scottish Optoelectronics Association Schools competition for 2015 International Year of Light, all S2 pupils at Millburn Academy had the opportunity to visit exhibits similar to those at science centres in larger cities

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