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A key infrastructure project supported by The Highland Council’s Community Regeneration Fund has been completed in Uig on the Isle of Skye.

The Uig Footbridge at River Rha has been replaced after reaching the end of its lifecycle and was officially reopened on Saturday 29 March by Chair of Skye and Raasay Area Committee, Cllr John Finlayson.

With the School Easter holidays upon us the RHET classroom potato projects across Perth and Kinross are well under way.

135 classes have been given the complete kit compost fertiliser and Rocket seed potatoes to grow a crop in the classroom/playground. ISJ Horticulture, garden suppliers of seed potatoes, in Almondbank, have sponsored the program. 

The Scottish Government today announced that 1 April 2025 will see the introduction of free inter-island ferry travel for all island residents under the age of 22 within Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides.

Neil tragically took his life in June 2024 at the age of 60 and his wife, Caroline, and their three children, Victoria, Emily, and Charlie, along with family and friends, are preparing to come together almost exactly a year later to complete this endurance challenge.

Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity has announced its largest ever land acquisition after securing the 7,618-hectare Inverbroom Estate in the Scottish Highlands.

Repurposing publicly-owned land for farming will be a key issue considered at a forthcoming summit about attracting new people into agriculture.

Agriculture and Connectivity Minister Jim Fairlie visited Suzanne and Andrew Jardine, who are tenants of the 123 hectare Newfarm on the Applegirth Estate near Moffat, which is managed by Crown Estate Scotland.