Patience plea over roads clearing
24/12/2009 08:43:08
A senior councillor urges patience from the public when it comes to clearing roads and pavements of snow and ice.
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Legal warning halts outdoors trip
23/12/2009 19:13:16
A council says a school trip for 70 pupils cannot go ahead to avoid discriminating against one of the group who is disabled.
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Rescuers spend Christmas in bothy
24/12/2009 09:04:42
Members of RAF Leuchars' mountain rescue team are to spend Christmas and New Year on stand-by in a mountain bothy.
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Illicit still put back into use
24/12/2009 00:56:22
A former illicit still has been put back into use by a whisky distiller based on Lewis in the Western Isles.
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Van driver admits causing death
23/12/2009 16:15:21
A van driver admits causing the death of another motorist by dangerous driving in a Ross-shire crash last November.
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Nuclear archive designers named
23/12/2009 14:11:44
The winners of an architects' competition to design a national nuclear archive to be built in Caithness are named.
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Man found dead near car named
23/12/2009 14:20:40
A 44-year-old man whose body was found close to a car which was abandoned in the Highlands is named by police.
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Bird facing 'local extinctions'
23/12/2009 10:21:29
One of the UK's rarest birds the capercaillie is facing a "local extinction" in an area of Scotland, according to the RSPB.
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