Flash flooding closes roads around Culloden

Heavy rainfall has caused flooding around Balloch and Culloden and police have closed the following roads:
Murray Road and Murray Terrace, Smithton (unclassified)
Barn Church Road, Culloden (between Cherry Park Junction and the A96 Junction, also unclassified)
A number of other routes in the Culloden, Balloch, Smithton and Nairnside area are affected by significant surface water, in particular.
The [...]

New partnership to promote Highland golf courses

BBC – The elite of Highland golf have formed an alliance to boost their marketing of the region’s courses. The Highland Golf Links partnership includes Castle Stuart Golf Links, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Nairn Golf Club, Culloden House Hotel, Newton Hotel and Royal Golf Hotel in Dornoch. The Moray Firth businesses have been given a [...]

Clubber wins £28,000 for fall on dance floor

Press and Journal – A north woman who sued an Inverness nightclub for £100,000 after she fell on the dance floor and broke her wrist has agreed to a £28,000 out-of-court settlement, it was revealed yesterday. Angela Spalding, 40, of Walker Crescent, Culloden, claimed she fell in the Love2Love nightclub in Castle Street in November, [...]

1,000 homes hit by power cut in Inverness

Highland News – ONE thousand homes in Inverness were hit by a power cut this morning. Properties in the Inshes, Culloden, Cradlehall and Westhill areas of the city were affected from just after 8am. Emergency repair teams from power firm Scottish and Southern Energy were dispatched, with work getting under way near Simpsons Garden Centre [...]

£½m sports plan for Culloden

Inverness Courier – AN ambitious £500,000 scheme to build a new all-weather sports area, bowling green and skate park for Smithton and Culloden has taken a big step forward. The community council has unveiled plans for the project after securing funding for a feasibility study and architect drawings of a covered games area at the [...]

New gates for approach to Culloden House

BBC – Gates on the original approach to a country house requisitioned by Bonnie Prince Charlie as his headquarters are to be replaced. Culloden House was the prince’s base ahead of the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The property is now a hotel. Highland Council said the new gates on either end of Culloden Avenue [...]

Reservists to recreate Jacobite night march

BBC – The Territorial Army (TA) are preparing to retrace a possible route followed by Jacobite forces who were attempting to ambush a government camp in 1746. The night march of 15 April, 265 years ago, was aborted short of its target on the outskirts of Nairn. Bonnie Prince Charlie’s forces were defeated at Culloden [...]

Father, 27, fined after drunken struggle at pub

Press and Journal – A young father was fined £1,000 at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday after he admitted struggling with bar staff and police officers at a city pub. Stephen Lochhead, 27, of 15 Alltan Place, Culloden, broke a bone in his hand while police tried to handcuff him during the incident outside Lauders, in [...]

Commendations for care home rescue heroes

Inverness Courier – FOURTEEN firefighters will pick up awards today for their heroic efforts in rescuing 59 elderly people from a blazing nursing home. It is thought to be the first time an entire watch from Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service has been honoured with the Chief’s Commendation. The crews were first [...]

Jacobite ’secret’ society opens its doors

BBC – A group that has its roots in a secret society which remained loyal to Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden has opened up its membership. Until now people have had to receive an invitation to join A Circle of Gentlemen. Circle commodore Matthew Donnachie said by encouraging general membership, a fund [...]

Shame of sex in shed driving instructor

Highland News – A PERVERT driving instructor who had sex in a shed with a 14-year-old boy he met online did not “rob him of his innocence”, a court was told on Tuesday. Solicitor Michael Chapman, defending Michael Reat (39), argued the youngster had already “lost his innocence” and Reat was not the first man [...]

999 row in pub kiss of life drama

Highland News – A PUB bouncer has been hailed a hero after saving the life of a woman who collapsed on the dance floor. Alexander MacDonald gave the 21-year-old the kiss of life while an ambulance rushed from Dingwall to the emergency. There was disquiet at the scene of the drama, Johnny Foxes, at [...]

Gumtree link-up man had sex with boy in shed

Highland News – A PERVERT driving instructor had sex in a shed with a 14-year-old boy he met through the advertising website Gumtree. Michael Reat (39), of Oakdene Court, Culloden, pleaded guilty at Inverness Sheriff Court on Tuesday to committing an act of gross indecency with the youngster between December 9 and 13 last year [...]

Nursing homes face fire-safety inspections

Press and Journal – EVERY nursing home in the Highlands and islands may be given a full fire-safety check after a devastating blaze in Inverness. Investigators have established that an electrical fault was the most likely cause of the fire that destroyed the Culloden Court care home. They believe a modern alarm system – which [...]

Public rally to help OAPs in care home fire

Press and Journal – An appeal for the public to rally round to help elderly care home residents who lost possessions in a fire a week ago has been answered with great generosity. Smithton and Culloden Community Council, through its secretary Dawn Colman, launched a shoebox appeal for essential items for the 59 pensioners who [...]

Row over ‘too fat for cake van’ job claims

Highland News – AN Inverness man’s hopes of being a bakery delivery van driver went pear shaped – after he claims he was told he was too fat to get the job. Steven Mitchell (38), of Culloden, was left with a sour taste in his mouth when, he alleges, he was told he was “too [...]

Tree surgeon is fined £300 over fight at Culloden

Press and Journal – A Culloden tree surgeon was fined £300 yesterday for fighting with a man who insulted his mother. Marc Mackay, 23, pleaded guilty to breaching the peace by chasing after and fighting Matthew Morrison in Church Brae Road, Culloden, last December. Inverness Sheriff Court heard that Mackay, of 35 Altan Place, Culloden, [...]

New Moon watch night to be observed in Scotland

BBC – Scottish stargazers are to take part in the first International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday. Renfrewshire Astronomical Society will host viewings from 2000 BST at the Lapwing Lodge Outdoor Centre on the outskirts of Paisley. Highland Astronomical Society will also be holding an event at its Culloden Moor observatory. The night is [...]

Carving burnt as vandals torch motorbike

Inverness Courier – DAMAGE has been caused to another sculpture in Culloden woodland. A carving of a fairy on a toadstool was set alight in the early hours of Friday morning, along with an off-road motorbike, which police suspect was stolen. Firefighters were called to the blaze shortly after 1am and extinguished it. North Kessock [...]

Culloden battle map going on display in Inverness

BBC – A plan of the Battle of Culloden drawn two years after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s defeat to a government army in 1746 is to go on display in Inverness. The National Library of Scotland (NLS) will bring the 1748 map to the city’s Farraline Park as part of a road show. Historic books and [...]

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