Nicky Marr

There’s CCTV on almost every street corner, and in most shops and bars, but not yet buses.

Strikes by teaching staff will impact their education, As will a crumbling, leaking, mouse-infested, damp school.

Houses are vital, but so is community, and communities need spaces between houses.

Did you head abroad this summer? Chances are you’ll have paid an extra few Euros in tourist tax.

Have you seen Highland Council’s proposals for reducing through-traffic on Academy Street in Inverness?

This time last year I was gifted a bottle of whisky. Distilled in Kennethmount, in Aberdeenshire, the dram was a new one to me, an Ardmore Legacy.

Stuck in Thursday’s Belladrum queues we managed to stay cheerful for the first four-and-a-half hours.

Work-life balance. It can be an elusive thing, especially when we’re plugged into our tech all the time.

I felt a weight of responsibility to represent the audience's concerns and not to let ministers and civil servants off the hook

We cannot properly achieve our regional potential without regular, reliable, affordable transport links.

The closure of rural GP practices for lack of staff means many rural communities find themselves without medical cover.

A lesser mortal would have fled the stage, assuming they’d had the courage to turn up.

Within minutes, life-affirming warmth becomes life-threatening fury.

Overkill? Oh, I would say so.

Every woman I know has felt vulnerable while walking home late at night.

If ScotRail can put on an express train between the Highlands and the central belt for sport, then please, can they do it every day?

Sentient robots and chatbots are still the stuff of science fiction, aren’t they?

Ask any business – or employer for that matter – what their biggest challenge is, and alongside increased costs of trading, will be staff shortages.

It is vital that Raigmore should have the staff, resources, and capacity to treat and care for all its patients. But right now, that is not happening

Am I just getting old and intolerant or has a proportion of our society forgotten how to behave in public?