Business

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Scottish Government experts will now review the case and send a report with recommendations to Ministers.

If you’re in need of something to brighten up these dark winter evenings, head across to Orkney for the inaugural Kirkwall BID Festival of Light.

Most businesses in the Highlands consider their links with the local community as either equal to or more important than their profitable growth.

Funding has been awarded to help businesses in Caithness and north Sutherland diversify from traditional skills to green skills.

Caithness Chamber representatives outline concerns to Fiona Hyslop

A Caithness creative group was ready to host its first craft fair and show at Scrabster village hall when a major problem occurred.

North business leader Trudy Morris has said she hopes the sale of Thurso's battery factory will bring stability and peace of mind to its employees.

John O'Groats Mill Trust (£50K) and Reay Golf Club (£75K) are quids in along with other Caithness groups for the Community Regeneration Fund.

The biggest provider of affordable homes in the Highlands has secured heating bills support for 600 tenants to help them with winter costs.

Twenty jobs have been saved in Thurso after a deal with with Dutch-owned LionVolt that ensures battery cell manufacturing will continue in the town.

Money from the West of Orkney Wind Farm has been awarded to several groups – including work to tackle invasive Pacific Salmon in the River Thurso.

Highland Council has received advance notice of a full planning application.

A noticeable peak in theft of materials from building sites over the festive period when sites were closed has been highlighted at an Inverness event.

Trudy Morris, chief executive of Caithness Chamber of Commerce, welcomes the 'promising sign' that businesses are dedicated to the far north

Businesses 'can't afford' scaling back of postal deliveries.

Questions are being asked about the promise of local jobs after a business entrepreneur and apparent major investor in Wick disappeared from the town.

Job seekers are being invited to what is being billed as the largest and most comprehensive job, career, training and recruitment event in Caithness.

Many in the Highlands will be affected if Royal Mail cuts back its delivery schedule from six a week to just three, if Ofcom proposals go ahead.

Cold water has been poured on a proposal to extend Dounreay’s travel-to-work area to include Orkney.