News archive
HIE Caithness and Sutherland news archive from February 2008
| Meeting to consider Caithness retailers group A public meeting is to be held in Thurso next week to discuss the formation of a Caithness-wide body to represent the retail sector. | |
| Residents give their views on John O'Groats Around 80 people attended last Saturday's open event at the Seaview Hotel to contribute their views on what a redeveloped John o'Groats might look like. | |
| Louise joins project to promote Pentland Firth Energy Louise Smith has been appointed to progress an important marine project set to play a crucial role in revitalising the economy of Caithness following the de-commissioning of Dounreay. Civil engineer Louise Smith takes up the two-year post of project manager with the Pentland Firth Tidal Energy Project next Tuesday (February 12). She joins Duncan Mackay, from the Crown Estates, who is already in place. Louise's new post is funded by HIE and the NDA. | |
| Journalist of the year Keith MacKenzie, reporter, West Highland Free Press, has been named Journalist of the Year for the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Free fire safety advice for Highlands and Islands businesses The first in a series of fire safety risk assessment workshops, designed to alert small businesses and voluntary organisations across the Highlands and Islands to changes in fire safety legislation and how it affects them, will be held in Kirkwall on Tuesday 5 February. | |