Threat to Boots
The owners of the D10 factory are threatening to close it
4 Jul 2023
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New Student Development in Beeston
The government have given permission for a new student development next to the Ark Cinema
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
Care Home Crisis
The care sector, especially in the Highlands, is in crisis. It's facing the same combination of extreme cost increases as hospitality, however its situation is far worse.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
What more difficult business area can there be in Scotland right now than hospitality in the Highlands?
There is barely a café, pub or hotel that is not desperately seeking staff across the Highlands this summer. And we all have horror stories of new employees not turning up for their first day at work, or being seduced by a higher pay offer elsewhere.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
Threat from ticks
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
AMD
4 Jul 2023
Angus MacDonald
Kinloch Castle buyer driven off
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
AMD
4 Jul 2023