GIRLS' and women's football is the fastest growing sport in the world a fact former Scotland women's captain Finella Annand is keen to shout about.
As the Scottish Football Association's development officer for girls' and women's football in the north region, a role she took up in October last year, Miss Annand is determined to create pathways for future stars in the Highlands
AS manager of the Eastgate Shopping Centre, Jackie Cuddy has organised and supported countless charity events.
However, in 10 months she will undertake a personal challenge when she power walks the 26-mile New York Marathon in a bid to raise £10,000 for The ARCHIE Foundation an ambitious £1 million fund-raising appeal to develop a new children's ward at Raigmore Hospital which was launched by the ARCHIE Foundation and backed by The Inverness Courier.
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Helen Aird discovers how an innovative course is helping women cope with setbacks MOTHER Tracey Enslie admits she is lacking in confidence when it comes to finding a job. The 35-year-old has been out of work for three years since splitting from her husband, at which point she decided she needed to devote more time to her three children who struggled with the change.
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A MOTHER who dropped three dress sizes to prevent her daughter becoming the victim of bullying has set up a new Slimming World class in Inverness.
Helen Street was given the push she needed to lose weight after her daughter confided in her that one of her friends was being bullied because of her mother's size.
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SUPPORT group which helps women and children who have been victims of violence and domestic abuse in the Nairn area claims its clients are being discriminated against because of where they live.
The Community Violence and Abuse Support Service (CoVASS) is unhappy with the funding it receives from Highland Council compared to other similar groups. And it claims its future is now threatened by lack of cash.
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RUGBY on roller skates is how Laurna Hislop describes roller derby, a full contact sport on skates which is taking off in the city.
"It's so much fun and great to be part of and when the girls get on track we beat the crap out each other and then we go for a pint after," said the 27-year-old from George Street in Inverness, the chairwoman of Nasty Nessie Roller Girls, a team of 20 aged from 18 to 50 which formed in June and practice in Millburn Academy.
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A YOUNG woman is planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in memory of her late cousin who died from lung cancer.
Nicola Macdonald hopes to raise thousands of pounds for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation with the climb in Tanzania next September.
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A FRIEND of mine is pregnant with her second child. The gap between her two kids will be about 20 months; similar to the gap between the two Marr girls. I applaud her decision to have her kids so close together and in her case it was a conscious decision. I'd like to say we made a similar conscious decision, a teenage handful of years ago, but it just happened. I just ended up pregnant again.
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Amy Mackay uses the natural environment of the Highlands as her inspiration and jumped at the chance to move into Beauly when the opportunity arose.
Now, the 25-year-old has opened Amy C Mackay Jewellery, which adjoins the studio she has been working in this year.
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SITTING in a doctors' surgery and being told as an 11-year-old that she has type one diabetes and would have to inject every day for the rest of her life, hit Amanda Croall hard.
"I said I don't want to get fat and I'm not injecting and my poor mum burst out crying," said the 32-year-old, a PE teacher at Charleston Academy.
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AS an intelligent, smart and well spoken teenager with a healthy interest in fashion, makeup and music, Rebecca Nicholson is like any other 16-year-old.
However, throughout her life, she has been trying to prove this to other people.
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ON an average day, Julie McNally might eat a tin of Weight Watchers soup, a Weight Watchers yoghurt and a handful of dry All-Bran.
"I just don't taste anything," she said. "Every taste is like cardboard. I eat and it means nothing to me."
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AS the youth voice of television channel E4, introducing hit shows such as "Hollyoaks", "Glee" and "Made in Chelsea", Kelsey Bennett says she has to pinch herself on a daily basis.
The former Culloden Academy pupil is not only the youngest voice on the channel but is also the only Scottish voice, something which makes her very proud.
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