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Arnish £1m rolling plant
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has invested £1m in state of the art manufacturing equipment at one of Scotland's key renewable energy manufacturing sites in the Outer Hebrides. Imported from Italy, specialist DAVI Rolls have been installed to form part of a wider £2.9m project by the development agency to provide steel rolling and welding equipment at Arnish.
Prof Lorne Crerar chairs H&IE
Professor Crerar is a founding partner and chairman of Scottish commercial law firm Harper Macleod LLP, offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness and held the part-time Chair of Banking Law at Glasgow University since 1997.He was formerly deputy chairman of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and one of three chairmen of the Housing Improvement Task Force which in 2002 completed its work.
Bitter opposition to key wind farms
As Donald Trump with his Balmenie course development violently contests the plan for an offshore 11-turbine test farm in view of the Menie resort, saying private assurances were made that it would not get permission, the stooshie is being spread by Tiree Array campaigners desperately protesting "death by 180 to 300 turbines" for Tiree, and drawing the proposed Methil site into the action with some (below) turbine height graphics
Education of the heart
The Dalai Lama will deliver this year’s Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion and talk "Education of the Heart: a new world order of compassion" during his historic visit to Dundee, Inverness, and Edinburgh after several programmes in Manchester and London.
SSE doubles 1MW payout
Highland Council has welcomed Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) announced intention of setting up a new Scotland Sustainable Energy Fund which could be worth more than £90m over 25 years..
‘Capitalising on the Cloud: Applying new practices to deliver business’
Sponsored by the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise, key ICT businesses and experts will gather for a free series of presentations and networking opportunities
For William timber mill modernises
BSW Timber, the largest saw milling business in the UK, has announced expansion of both its Fort William and Latvia sites, ensuring the long term future in Scotland of the 150 workforce and creating knock-on job opportunities for Lochaber. The major investment in modern technology, will including computer scanning and computer optimisation equipment, modernising the mill that was built in 1974.
IT hub for children's ward
Fujitsu, the IT company which signed a £70m IT contract with Highland Council in 2009 and employs 150 staff across the Highlands, is to create a computer-based recreation and learning centre for youngsters from throughout the Highlands and Islands who are being treated at Raigmore hospital.
World Whisky crown: Old Pulteney 21 year old
The Pulteney distillery in Wick, Caithness, scored a record-equaling 97.5 points out of 100 for its 21-year-old Old Pulteney single malt as 2011 top world whisky. It is only the third time that a single malt has ever won the prestigious award, and just the second Scottish distillery to do so.
Lochaline quartz mine reopens
The reopening of the silica sand mine at Lochaline, whose workings cover around 370 acres, accessed by around 48 km of tunnels, lying under something like 150 metres of basalt is good news for Morvern and the Lochaline Quartz Sand Ltd which expects to produce around 100,000tpa.
Who can or should reap renewable energy benefits?
Aiming to develop a list of ‘priorities for change’ for policymakers resulting from views expressed by participants, SAC’s Rural Policy Centre has organised one of the most important debates for Scotland's energy sector, which will be held at Inverness on 18th October 2011. Speakers from community-based and national private initiatives, as well as infrastructure issue experts are to debate before 40 guests from the policy arena, private, public and thirds sectors on the issues of who can and who should receive the benefits from Scotland's energy sector.
Caledonian forests returning
Plantation forests of native Scots pine trees could be transformed into wild woodland with the help of computer models to work out how best to manage the development, a study shows. Perhaps there is hope too that the older deciduous forests could be returned, instead of the encroaching gloomy stands of commercial fir.
Wind, biomass & flashfloods in Scotland
Two wind farms in South Ayrshire have recently been unveiled in Scotland, supplying green electricity to around 100,000 homes while Norway's Statkraft is to construct Baillie Wind Farm in Caithness by 2013 and Lagan Construction of Belfast will build a wood pellet and biomass power plant at Girvan in a former textile factory site while Edinburgh's Waters of Leith get flashflood attention.
Scotland gets six more broadband exchanges
Scotland gets six of BT's additional 66 country wide fibre broadband exchange locations included in its £2.5bn superfast broadband rollout. The 66 exchanges serve nearly one million homes and businesses.
Multidisciplinary needs of DALLAS
Are you an organisation with expertise in informatics, software development, devices, sensors, electronics, communication technology, creative content, design-led innovation, consumer psychology, social psychology, health economics, web science, life sciences? All disciplines are needed in the £23m UK-wide programme Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale (DALLAS)
Anglesea array then Kyle Rhea
The Bristol-based makers of the worlds largest tidal turbine, Marine Current Turbines (MCT) in partnership with RWE npower renewables, is to launch an array off Wales and has submitted a consent application to install the 10MW array SeaGen turbines off Anglesey in 2015.
Fujitsu creates Inverness IT jobs
IT company Fujitsu which signed a £70m IT contract with Highland Council last year is reported to be creating 10 new posts at its main office in the Highlands.
Translational lags: lipidomics rise
A £2m pioneering Lipidomics Research Facility science lab was unveiled in Inverness (the first in the UK, keeping Scotland on a par with Germany and the US) to play a lead role in fighting heart and kidney disease based at the University of Highlands and Islands (UHI).
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Local Challenges - Global Solutions
Countries across the world are facing unprecedented challenges from ageing populations and the continuing rise in lifestyle related diseases. The Scottish life science community is turning thinking into practice to address these issues. Healthcare professionals, researchers and businesses are developing systems that are Preventive, Predictive, Participatory and Personalised - delivered using digital technology.
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