IT all started so well.
They were freedom fighters, and they were protesting for democracy. They were, after all, overthrowing tyrants. Some still are. And so the Arab Spring won the hearts and minds of the entire Western world.
TWO new reports portray a catalogue of professional and political failings at the top of Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. In the first, Audit Scotland criticises years of "poor leadership and governance" which have left the service in a position where power has effectively been handed over to a team of troubleshooters which is now proposing major changes to the brigade's structure and operations.
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EXACTLY 163 years ago the people of Inverness were terrorised by the raging, rising waters of the Ness, swollen out of all recognition as huge gouges were carved in the town's upstream defences by the pounding power of incessant, frightening levels of rainwater descending from the mountains, gathering snowfall in its maw and surging down Loch Ness with ever increasing velocity.
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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