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Holyrood Notebook by Edward Mountain

Holyrood Notebook by Ariane Burgess

The event promises an eye-opening spectacle for the lay person and sheer delight for vintage tractor and plough buffs.

Mike Merritt lets the train from Inverness take the strain on his way to the start of a walking holiday in the north-east of England

Our across the pond Black Isler feels anxious about what’s coming. She’s not alone, right?

She says ‘I hope that proposed refinancing solutions can ensure the long-term sustainability of the club’.

My hope is placed not in religion as a system nor in religion as a framework of belief but simply in the love of Jesus Christ, says our columnist.

As well as dealing with the immediate effects of drugs and alcohol we should support the efforts to tackle the underlying causes, says our columnist.

He says ‘the SNP government has spent every one of its 17 years in power trying and failing to address the issue of delayed discharge’.

Highland Council and NHS Highland must never let an existing care home close, says our MP.

You see on entering what was Bishop Eden’s personal chapel at Eden Court Theatre a life-size figure, a young girl perched on her father’s shoulders.

John Davidson steps up for 26.2-miler after watching wife and others complete challenge close to home

We welcome feedback and want to have the chance to put things right as quickly as possible, says our columnist.

“This column is something of a milestone. My 100th time wittering on in our local weekly paper. I can hardly believe it!”

She says ‘one of Labour’s very first decisions’ was to scrap winter fuel payments leaving over 800,000 pensioners with less money to heat their homes.

John Davidson explores the peninsular at Noss Head and visits the lighthouse and 15th-century Castle Sinclair-Girnigoe

You see on entering what was Bishop Eden’s personal chapel at Eden Court Theatre a life-size figure, a young girl perched on her father’s shoulders.

The way that things are set up can impact our behaviour, says our columnist.

In an increasingly fractured communications landscape and a breakneck pace of change, the need for trusted, reliable information will only increase.

He says ‘despite five SNP MSPs from the region taking hefty ministerial salaries, the Highlands keeps missing out’.