Month: April 2025

April 22, 2025 Graham Garfoot 1 comment

This post takes a look at Highland and Island Enterprise (HIE)’s response to Gordon Bulloch’s Freedom of Information  request of 05/12/2024 (see here) and attempts to explain what went wrong with the funicular repairs. As I said in the last post (see here) both COWI, the design engineers for the funicular, and Balfour Beatty, the construction…

April 17, 2025 Ben Tindall 10 comments

1st April 2025 Walking home from Holyrood, on a perfect evening, in the clearest air, cool and sunny, I decided to take the scenic route. The north end is still barricaded off with ugly green Cold War barriers, chestnut paling fencing and random signage, all within sight of Parliament.  This reminds MSPs how the ‘Right…

April 16, 2025 Nick Kempe 9 comments

I was provided with this incredible photo through a friend who had been Knoydart 2 weeks ago and, for four days between 2nd and 5th April, had watched a fire on Morar to the south. An alert was raised for Knoydart and the community started to muster and prepare a response. It was not long…