News Archive - April 2015

Further to a previous press release in relation to theft of items from the Station Hotel, Princes Street, Thurso on the morning of Saturday 25th April 2015, it has since come to light that a black 32" flat screen TV has also been stolen from another room at the same hotel. This theft has occurred some time between 5.00pm on Friday 24th April 2015 and 8.00am on Saturday 25th April 2015.

With the deficit in 2014-15 still at 5% of national income all these parties have pledged to reduce it over the coming parliament. New research, published today by the IFS and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, analyses the public finance implications of these political parties' election manifesto commitments, and sets out the size and composition of the future fiscal tightening that each appears to be planning. None of these parties has provided anything like full details of their fiscal plans for each year of the coming parliament, leaving the electorate somewhat in the dark as to both the scale and composition of likely spending cuts and tax increases. In our analysis we have used the information provided in each manifesto, plus in some cases some necessary assumptions, to shed light on the four parties’ plans.

Camps Bar "2" players Ryan Carter and Bruce Honeyman have won the Bfest Annual Pairs Championship for the third year in a row. The Blackstairs Lounge hosted the weekend event, where teams had to qualify from the group stages to make it through to the semi finals on the Sunday. In group A it was Hamish New and Darren Goodwill who would combine well to top their group and qualify in top spot.

On Saturday (18 April 2015) around 35 local residents and volunteers turned out in stunning sunshine to help The Highland Council's Countryside Rangers undertake the annual spring beach clean at Dunnet Bay, north Caithness. A huge amount of litter was collected completely filling the skip and the subsequent second large pile of rubbish required a second skip to remove it.

Join Mike Lunan in his bid to get a new post box at Tesco in Thurso. Tesco attracts a large number of customers every day. There is an ATM there, evidence that many customers find it useful. A new post box there would be convenient for all customers, some of whom do not have easy access to a post box where they live.   Click through to add your name to the online petition.

A record number of Highland electors have applied to vote by post for the UK Parliamentary elections on Thursday 7 May. A total 32,151 electors across the three Highland constituencies of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey will be receiving their postal votes from tomorrow (Tuesday 21 April) onwards. This compares to 21,908 Highland applications for postal votes at the last General Election held in May 2010. - Last Day To Register To Vote

Work is underway at Ackergill Street, Wick to bring in a one way system as part of the 'Safer Rutes to school' programme in preparation for the new noss Primary school currently under construction.  New 20 miles per hour speed limits are coming into force in various places.  Other one way streets wil also be following shortly.