Local business people, both established and new business starts, are being offered the chance to meet Shetland Enterprise staff at an open, informal lunch on Friday 19th March between 12.30-2pm.
25 February 2004

Residents of Glendale, in Skye, are to get their own community hall for the first time. Work on the new hall began last week, it will have a main hall area, meeting room, kitchen, toilets, storage and an office. A clerk of works has been appointed to oversee the build.
23 February 2004

A Brora man has started a quirky new business which aims to capitalise on people's sense of smell for nostalgia - and the idea could have come from a famous cartoon character!
20 February 2004

The first three years of the Community Economic Development (CED) programme in Shetland have been a great success. The programme has injected £258,251 into the Shetland community supporting 57 projects locally. Phase 2 of the programme is just beginning, offering a budget of £137,551 that will run until the end of 2006.
20 February 2004

Three businesses in Lochaber are the latest to benefit from Lochaber Enterprise's training schemes. Newco Engineering, Jason Latto Home Furnishings and BSW Timber have benefited from advice and assistance from the Local Enterprise Company (LEC).
20 February 2004

A group of food and drink industry representatives in the Highlands and Islands have come together to establish the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Forum, under the Scottish Food and Drink umbrella.
17 February 2004

Charlotte Wright, acting chief executive of Lochaber Enterprise said: "Lochaber Enterprise back the bid to make Lochaber 'The Outdoor Capital of the UK'.
17 February 2004

An enhanced experience is in store for visitors to Gairloch and Wester Ross with a facelift for Flowerdale. The project, which is underway and is due to be completed in the spring, is supported by Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE), the European funded Community Economic Development (CED) programme, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Forestry Commission Scotland.
16 February 2004

The Ballygrant Hall Association has been awarded £2,848 via the Community Economic Development (CED) programme, to purchase information boards and signage - as well as carry out other improvements in Ballygrant and Keills, two villages on Islay.
16 February 2004

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) today announced that the final cost of the Cairngorm funicular railway project was £19.587 million.
16 February 2004

In the best traditions of the Hollywood blockbusters it has brought to communities throughout the Highlands and Islands, the pioneering Screen Machine mobile cinema is to have a sequel.
11 February 2004

Reporter with the Highland News, Inverness, Helen Bushnell, is the Highlands and Islands Journalist of the Year.
09 February 2004

A one-day course to train volunteers in safely and responsibly running fundraising events involving the sale of alcohol took place in Mallaig and Morar Community Centre on Saturday [31st January].
04 February 2004

Lochaber communities are being urged to speak up for Broadband after BT published "trigger level" targets for 6 telephone exchange areas in Lochaber. They have promised that if enough people register their interest for Broadband, and the targets are met, then BT will begin work to upgrade these telephone exchanges for ADSL Broadband.
04 February 2004

Cambrian Engineering Limited - manufacturers of wind turbine towers and foundations for the onshore and offshore renewable energy sector - is about to put itself into administration. The appointment of administrators for the Bangor-based firm is expected to be made tomorrow (Thursday 5th February), however the business can continue to trade in the short-term.
04 February 2004

A new innovative business has started in Thrumster, with help from Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise (CASE).
03 February 2004

Staff and management at Stolt Sea Farm are celebrating achieving the prestigious ISO 9000 quality management standard.
03 February 2004

Second-year pupils from every secondary school in Ross and Cromarty are being given an insight into careers in manufacturing at a three-day event in Alness this week.
02 February 2004

The board of Inverness and Nairn Enterprise (INE) has been strengthened with the appointment of four new directors, who attended their first board meeting earlier today (Thursday 29th January).
02 February 2004

For the second year in a row, the local newspaper serving Moray, the Northern Scot, has been voted Newspaper of the Year by the Highland and Islands Media Awards' judging panel. The weekly paper was deemed to have maintained its high standards over the past 12 months, with exceptional coverage of the Arlene Fraser murder trial. Northern Scot Photographer Eric Cormack is the Local Newspaper Photographer of the Year. To complete a hat-trick of Elgin successes, Peter Jones, who runs the Moray News Agency, won the Reporter of the Year award.
02 February 2004

Secondary school pupils across the Highlands and Islands are being offered the chance to find out how manufacturing businesses operate through a new series of enterprise roadshows developed by Careers Scotland.
02 February 2004