News Archive

Council unanimously backs reducing the voting age

The Highland Council has unanimously supported reducing the minimum age for voting in all elections to 16.   The Council is also backing Highland Youth Voice’s “Votes[AT]16” campaign which calls for 16 and 17 year olds to get the vote.  

SKIBO CAREERS EVENT

It is the opportunity to forge a career somewhere unique.   Skills Development Scotland, the national skills body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland, is holding an exciting careers event in Duthac Centre, Tain.  

Job opportunities on offer to Gaelic speaking students

Up to 25 job opportunities will be available to young Gaels over the summer months as a result of a longstanding partnership between Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Comunn na Gàidhlig (CnaG).   The job opportunities will be available through the Students Summer Placement Scheme, which offers Gaelic-speaking students placements with businesses and organisations where Gaelic is the language of the workplace.  

David Stewart MSP Highlights Importance of EU to the Highlands

In a speech to the Scottish Parliament , Highlands & Islands Regional MSP, David Stewart highlighted the importance of EU funding to the economic and cultural development of the Highlands and Islands.   “European funding is not a paternalistic sop from Eurocrats:, said Mr Stewart, “but a crucial economic tool.  

Child with confirmed Tuberculosis (TB) infection at Helmsdale Primary School

Issued by NHS Highland The Health Protection Team at NHS Highland is working with Highland Council Education Service following the recent confirmation of a case of Tuberculosis (TB) in a child who attends the nursery at Helmsdale Primary School, Sutherland.   The affected child did not catch the infection at school and remains well.  

Calling Flow Country Artists To ERI Conference

Scientists from Thurso�s Environmental Research Institute are reaching out to the art community in Caithness.  Artists and designers of all disciplines are being given the opportunity to display their work and interact with the scientific community at a forthcoming conference in Thurso dedicated to research in the Flow Country.  

Highlands and Islands MSP Backs Voter Registration Drive

North (Scottish Labour) MSP, Rhoda Grant is calling on voters across the Highlands and Islands to get involved in National Voter Registration Day (NVRD).   Wednesday 5th February 2014 will see people right across Great Britain encouraging others to register to vote, in the first day of its kind in the U.K.  

Food and drink events in Dingwall, Lochinver and Grantown for producers and buyers

Local food and drink producers and retailers are being invited to three events at the start of February in Lochinver, Dingwall and Grantown on Spey to explore and discuss future opportunities for closer collaboration.   The events, which take place in Lochinver and Dingwall on Tuesday 4 February and Grantown on Thursday 6 February, are the final ones in a series of local meetings that have taken place across the Highlands organised by the Think Local project which aims to facilitate constructive discussion about forging closer partnerships in the local food and drink sector.  

Average council house rent increase pegged at 2%

The increase in the average weekly rent charged by The Highland Council to its 13,500 council house tenants is being contained to 2%.  The rent will rise from �68.99 to �70.37, an increase of �1.38.  

90,000 increase in Scottish employment over year

Unemployment rate at lowest in five years.   Scotland is the best performing of the four nations of the UK in terms of unemployment and employment rates, according to new labour market figures which show for the period September to November 2013.