Highlands and Islands

Global Scots Making Scots Global

Until recently the GlobalScot membership site has carried all the attraction of cold rice pudding, with Grandma telling us to eat up – it’ll be good for us. To be fair there are some welcoming people there – Scottish Enterprise staff charged with making it work I guess. But generally it’s seemed a very poor [...]

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At Last Hope for Decent Air Services to the North

Anybody who travels from Scottish Airports will know the frustration of being routed through London Airports. In my experience the very worst part is that bus from Gatwick to LHR. Starting (or finishing) an international journey with 90 minutes on a coach costing £40 each and not included in the through ticket price. Multiple choice [...]

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Storm as HIE reveals education hub plan – Press & Journal

A few weeks ago we commented on an article about the Highland Brain Drain explaining there’s a simple answer – build a University and they will stay. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Amateur Munro Bagger on Ben Hope

Anybody starting out on the masochistic pursuit of bagging Munros could do a lot worse than begin with Ben Hope. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Nigg To Be Revived

A former oil yard in the Highlands could become a major fabrication centre for the burgeoning offshore windfarm industry creating thousands of jobs, Scotland Secretary Jim Murphy said yesterday. The proposed redevelopment of the Nigg yard in Easter Ross presents a “phenomenal opportunity” to recreate the heyday of the Cromarty Firth base when it supported [...]

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Scotland Looks Into a Black Hole

Its’ been obvious to anybody with a basic understanding of economics that Scotland‘s dependence on English taxes would eventually collapse its house of cards. At the height of the credit crunch and collapse in house prices we watched a smug politician claim Scotland would be protected from the worst of the recession, because a larger [...]

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Stop the Highland Brain Drain

Yesterday the Press and Journal front page included a piece about youngsters leaving the Highlands to get education or jobs. It reported HIE funded research into attitudes of 15 to 30 year olds, and findings that 25% believed they needed to move south for opportunities. Quite why HIE needed to spend £66,000 finding out something [...]

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Is Scotland Missing the On-line Revolution

Rhetorical question I’m afraid, because I know the answer – Yes it is. My real question is why?  I have my own theory which we’ll get to later, but maybe you, the one person in the country who reads this will have a clearer picture. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for [...]

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