Scotland

Make the Most of Your 3 Days in Scotland

Attractions

With only three or four days in Scotland, visitors need some help getting the most out of their trip. The country offers an enticing choice of attractions in its heritage, its geography, its culture and its entertainment. From the wild Border Reiver country in the south, through the commercial and industrial Central Belt, the Cairngorm [...]

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The Scottish Paradox I Can’t Resolve

Business

Yesterday we explained about our latest FP7 project, and how we resolved the paradox between the undeniable opportunity and the unmanageable risk for SMEs getting involved. We didn’t explain the problems we’ve had with the Scottish business development agencies and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in particular, so we’ll do that now. If Alex Salmond [...]

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So Typically Scottish

Comment

The roads in the Central Belt have effectively been closed for 24 hours. A few inches of snow yesterday morning brought the entire area to a standstill.Almost a full day later people are still stuck in their cars having spent the night out in frightening low temperatures. Somebody has even called in the Army to [...]

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And Tonight’s Dram is Aberlour

Whisky

Being a snooty sort of guy, and living in the proper Highlands, I’ve tended to look down on the Speyside malt whiskies.Glenmorangie is closest to where we live, Clynleish is just up the road, and Dalmore not 20 miles away. In the circumstances who would want to drink something from Speyside? Well it seems I’m [...]

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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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Scottish Highlands Adventure Travel Destination?

Attractions

Come to the Scottish Highlands for your next adventure holiday. This article (which I’m not sure I totally believe) says its a great area for exciting, activity holidays. And its true. Skiing in the winter, hill walking in winter – if you are truly nuts – and summer. Kite surfing, golfing, fishing, flying about on [...]

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Highlands and Islands Gets Superfast Broadband

Business

Scottish Highlands businesses will be the first to benefit from the new superfast broadband. In that case all of us small business owners wanting to export our goodies will be very happy. Is this too good to be true. We’re big fans of the way Internet technologies live where we want, and work where we [...]

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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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What’s On at Royal Dornoch Golf Club

Dornoch

What’s On? At Royal Dornoch Golf Club this month these are the events planned. Manager Neil Hampton updates members each month with club news and a list of events planned for the coming weeks. Here’s his list of what’s on at the club this month: Upcoming Competitions & Events Friday 22nd Oct – Annual Prize [...]

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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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