The agency also issued a warning that starting early next month there will be further disruption south of Drumochter.
Altnaharra, Loch Glascarnoch, Lairg and Aviemore all saw the mercury plunging to negative double digits.
He says an effort was made to ‘to deny the delays were because of failures by anyone in government or that uber-quango Transport Scotland’.
But in what is a major positive the Scottish Government appears open to accelerating work on the deadliest sections.
Bosses thanked efficient officials saying ‘we are 100 per cent open and good to go’ after it closed pending an entertainment license.
BID developed its own on-demand clean-up service for cleaning and it evolved into an on-demand gritting service too.
But goods vehicles could see the speed limit increase on single and dual carriageways by 10mph.
As one councillors assures the public ‘you will not get someone suddenly coming out with an axe and go screaming down Academy Street at 3am’.
The business says that it will close in the meantime but hopes to reopen in time for the weekend.
The public has until February 25 to make their views known as critics slam the scheme as a waste of money.
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The owners say they want to host ‘a mix of DJ's and bands along with dancing’.
Allegations of secrecy emerged during what critics fear is the last financial update until ‘10 days before the budget is set’.
Highland Council unanimously backs the move after region lost 218 beds in two years.
Councillor Helen Crawford says ‘people are starting to say that the education committee is dysfunctional’.
A bid to improve information triggered a furious reaction from administration councillors.
The request was made at a full council meeting over the ‘unwanted, unneeded and unwelcome Academy Street fiasco’.
Finance bosses fear that any Westminster boost may fall far short of making up the loss they imposed adding a significant budget pressure.
Most of the cash was recovered but bosses say due to the ‘complexities’ of paying a workforce of 10,000 it could happen again.
The plan emerged from the redesign board tasked with ‘professionalising’ and reforming council services.