Inverness

Oxford’s TightRope Fiddler

Oxfordshire

We get used to street entertainment.  In Inverness there’s always a piper and in Oxford there can be all sorts of musicians, jugglers and actors.  Hardly worthy of mention, really. But this guy is different.  Walking a tight rope isn’t something my vertigo would allow, and playing a violin is something my fingers wouldn’t do. [...]

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HIE Eats My Lunch – Again

Business

Highlands and Islands Enterprise is coming under a lot of fire at the moment, as the public sector squabbles over the smaller pie Danny Alexander and his Treasury mates will allow Scotland to waste. An excellent post by a Gurn from Nurn quotes an ex boss of HIE explaining why HIEs role, and budget should [...]

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Forget the Cuts We Need a Smaller Public Sector

Comment

Public sector organisation and provision of services is bad for business. Cutting back the burgeoning public sector in Scotland will be essential for reversing the country’s endemic economic decline. And the Highlands desperately needs a change, to allow private sector businesses to flourish. Until we get that about turn in direction, declines in living standards, [...]

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Rays of Light in Inverness But No Sunrise

Business

Amongst public sector howls of protest and socialist predictions of Armageddon its a real pleasure to come across some positive thinking from the Inverness Courier. Maybe there’s a silver lining, the author suggests. And there is a silver lining, but not the ones alluded to here which amount to the town grabbing a bigger share [...]

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Jazz Returns to the Highlands

Inverness

Image via Wikipedia One Scottish Highlands attraction most people won’t know about is performing arts.  We have plenty to entertain us, and it’s not all bagpipes, drums and kilts.  The Highlands has drama. It also has Jazz. Real Jazz.  New York style Jazz For years now the Nairn Jazz Festival has attracted popular musicians from [...]

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Ullapool

Ullapool
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Ullapool, on the west coast, is a gateway to the Scottish Highlands, if you arrive by boat that is. It’s the home of the Ullapool ferry which connects the mainland with Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis. It’s also popular with sailers, with a safe accessible harbour and lots of facilities including bars, hotels, the [...]

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A Regional Capital Friendly As A Village

Inverness

Inverness is the Capital of the Highlands. The centre of an  area the size of Belgium for a population of more than 1 million yet it feels like a village.  Its compact – almost everything is within walking distance.  Traffic is light (for a capital that is) and parking is easy. It sits a the [...]

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Royal Golf Hotel in Dornoch Re-opens

Dornoch

Plans to re-open the Royal Golf Hotel adjacent to the clubhouse and first tee at Royal Dornoch Golf Club will be welcome all over Sutherland, and in lots of places around the world. We first stayed in the Royal Golf Hotel back in 1983 – our first visit to find out why Tom Watson had [...]

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