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Highland Council claims it has eased staffing shortages at crisis-hit Inverness specialist school where head teacher quit

Highland Council insists it has taken significant steps to ease staffing shortages at a crisis-hit specialist school in Inverness.

Crisis-hit Inverness school set to lose headteacher

A crisis-hit specialist school in Inverness is to lose its headteacher two weeks after Scotland’s education minister vowed to visit.

Home Office officials to meet English public over asylum seekers barracks plan but ignore Highlands

So is the north-south divide behind UK government ‘disrespect’ to Inverness?

Highland Council special meeting condemns Home Office’s Inverness asylum plan

An information vacuum on everything from location to safety and security is leading to misinformation.

‘Everybody deserves to get the help they need’ - supporters of asylum seekers plan gather outside council HQ

Group welcomes the 300 men who could be housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness.

WATCH: Asylum seeker plan sparks war of words as MP highlights soldiers’ families’ unease

Inverness MP Angus MacDonald reveals Black Watch (3 SCOTS) soldiers’ families are concerned about the proposal.

Can equivalent emissions of 20,462 cars travelling the NC500 be cut each year?

Council needs to cut yearly carbon emissions by 13% to meet targets.

Inverness asylum seekers plan sparks Highland Council fears about safeguarding, violence and far-right demos

The Home Office is still to confirm local authority’s role after the council, police and NHS were first told about it on October 9.

Edward Mountain asks UK government 10 questions about its Inverness asylum seekers plan

The Highland MSP says ‘secrecy is the enemy of truth’ and stoked ‘rumours and hatred’.

Scottish Government fears Highlands may pay Inverness asylum seeker services costs

A meeting with UK asylum minister Alex Norris failed to offer ‘reassurance’ over ‘health, policing and other local services’.

‘It would destroy one of the finest views in the country’ - MSP calls out against controversial Moray Firth development

A Nairn MSP has joined critics of a forthcoming major development on the Moray Firth, stating it would “devastate the beauty of the seascape”.

Care Inspectorate checking if Castlehill Care Home met improvement targets

The deadline expired on Friday for a formal notice following a torrid period of operator Simply Inverness Ltd.

Scottish Government refuses to say if it backs Inverness asylum plan with Fergus Ewing seeking action

Home Office minister Alex Norris is due to meet social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Sommerville on Tuesday.

Council recommend to approve new empty homes strategy

Highland Council have been recommended to approve an updated empty homes strategy for the next three years.

Vaccine clinic cancellations attacked amid early arrival of flu season

Cancellations of vaccine clinics and rescheduled dates weeks or even months later have been criticised - amid a much earlier flu season than normal.

Highland Council savages SSEN’s ‘appalling’ 170km super-pylon plan in scathing objection

Highland Council has lodged a devastating objection to a super-pylon line plan crucial to SSEN’s £7bn transformation of electricity transmission.

MSP Edward Mountain calls on UK government minister to visit Inverness over asylum seekers plan

He particularly urged the Home Office to come clean with the Scottish Government and Highland Council.

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Highland Council claims it has eased staffing shortages at crisis-hit Inverness specialist school where head teacher quit

Crisis-hit Inverness school set to lose headteacher

Crisis-hit Inverness school set to lose headteacher

Home Office officials to meet English public over asylum seekers barracks plan but ignore Highlands

Home Office officials to meet English public over asylum seekers barracks plan but ignore Highlands

Highland Council special meeting condemns Home Office’s Inverness asylum plan

Highland Council special meeting condemns Home Office’s Inverness asylum plan

‘Everybody deserves to get the help they need’ - supporters of asylum seekers plan gather outside council HQ

‘Everybody deserves to get the help they need’ - supporters of asylum seekers plan gather outside council HQ

WATCH: Asylum seeker plan sparks war of words as MP highlights soldiers’ families’ unease

WATCH: Asylum seeker plan sparks war of words as MP highlights soldiers’ families’ unease

Can equivalent emissions of 20,462 cars travelling the NC500 be cut each year?

Can equivalent emissions of 20,462 cars travelling the NC500 be cut each year?

Inverness asylum seekers plan sparks Highland Council fears about safeguarding, violence and far-right demos

Inverness asylum seekers plan sparks Highland Council fears about safeguarding, violence and far-right demos

Edward Mountain asks UK government 10 questions about its Inverness asylum seekers plan

Edward Mountain asks UK government 10 questions about its Inverness asylum seekers plan

Scottish Government fears Highlands may pay Inverness asylum seeker services costs

Scottish Government fears Highlands may pay Inverness asylum seeker services costs

‘It would destroy one of the finest views in the country’ - MSP calls out against controversial Moray Firth development

‘It would destroy one of the finest views in the country’ - MSP calls out against controversial Moray Firth development

Care Inspectorate checking if Castlehill Care Home met improvement targets

Care Inspectorate checking if Castlehill Care Home met improvement targets

Scottish Government refuses to say if it backs Inverness asylum plan with Fergus Ewing seeking action

Scottish Government refuses to say if it backs Inverness asylum plan with Fergus Ewing seeking action

Council recommend to approve new empty homes strategy

Council recommend to approve new empty homes strategy

Vaccine clinic cancellations attacked amid early arrival of flu season

Vaccine clinic cancellations attacked amid early arrival of flu season

Highland Council savages SSEN’s ‘appalling’ 170km super-pylon plan in scathing objection

Highland Council savages SSEN’s ‘appalling’ 170km super-pylon plan in scathing objection

MSP Edward Mountain calls on UK government minister to visit Inverness over asylum seekers plan

MSP Edward Mountain calls on UK government minister to visit Inverness over asylum seekers plan

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