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âWill proposed changes make healthcare better for Caithness? I doubt it.â (opens the original)
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The Scottish Governmentâs independent review of maternity services with a special focus on Caithness is to deliver its findings in the summer of 2027. The confirmation came in the Programme for Government that was released on Tuesday after First Minister John Swinney set out his plans for the year. While campaigners and the local constituency MSP have welcomed both the review and its early reporting date there are lingering concerns it will fall victim to reforms. Mr Swinney revealed the bigge
The Strathyâs campaign to secure aerial wildfire fighting capabilities raised in Holyrood (opens the original)
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The Strathyâs campaign to secure aerial wildfire fighting capabilities has been referred to in the Scottish Parliament during a key ministerial statement today. Justice secretary Neil Gray confirmed the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will be able to put helicopters on standby when wildfires warnings hit a certain level. ⢠Take-off for Strathy campaign to fight the wildfires from the air Should a wildfire break out then the fire service will be able to call on them helicopters immediately.
Inverness leadership judgement questioned over blues festivalâs almost £206k bill secrecy (opens the original)
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Highland Council has confirmed it will audit events and festivals âactivityâ regarding the Inverness Common Good Fund after the blues festival losses. We asked Inverness Provost Glynis Campbell Sinclair and city leader Councillor Ian Brown as well as other members of the councilâs events and festivals working group a number of questions around the finances for the festival, what they knew when and what should happen next. Specifically, we asked if they knew about the losses, if Inverness c
Blues Festival £206k Loss: âIt is almost like it has been deliberately withheld⦠(opens the original)
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The scale of the blues festival losses has sparked anger and frustration, councillors hitting out at the secrecy as well as the judgement of those involved in the event. It follows on from a failed attempt to make the previously free Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay event more feasible by charging entry, and the highly contested handling of plans to revamp Academy Street which were eventually found to be âunlawfulâ. ⢠EXCLUSIVE: Highland Council bosses lost £206,000 in one day on Inverness
EXCLUSIVE: Highland Council bosses lost £206,000 in one day on Inverness Blues Festival (opens the original)
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Highland Council lost almost £206,000 on the one-day Inverness International Blues Festival, according to internal documents - but the local authority still maintains the event came in âon budgetâ. The Inverness Courier can exclusively reveal the event suffered a total loss of £205,942, that figure only being revealed after a stand-off with the council which took three times longer than permitted to respond to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. And following our persistent questioning
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