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BBC News
11-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Highland Council to trial aid to assist visually impaired voters
A system to help blind and partially sighted people to vote is to be trialled in two Highland Council involves cardboard templates with cut-out areas that match up with each voting box when placed on top of a ballot templates have Braille and embossed areas next to each Council said it was trialling the system after a recent survey suggested people with visual impairments felt they could not vote in secret. The ballot paper overlay is expected to be made available during the Scottish Parliament elections next year. Derek Brown, Highland Council's returning officer, said: "When everyone can cast their vote freely and confidently, we all move closer to a fairer, more representative society. "Accessible voting isn't just a right - it's a powerful reminder that every person matters, and every vote shapes the future we share."Other aids will also be available during voting, including magnifiers and large print ballot paper will also be available to provide will take to the polls to elect new councillors for the Cromarty Firth and Eilean a' Cheò (Skye and Raasay) wards on 19 June.A full list of candidates standing in the two by-elections can be found on Highland Council's website.
BBC News
28-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Factory proposed for former oil terminal on Cromarty Firth
A factory for manufacturing offshore wind turbine components could be built on part of a former oil terminal on the Cromarty Energy has proposed the facility, which would be almost 17,000 sq metres (182,986 sq ft), for its Port of Highland-based civil engineering company acquired the port, a former oil and gas fabrication yard, in for the factory are outlined in a proposal of application notice (PAN) submitted to Highland Council. The factory would be an extension to existing renewable energy sector work done at Nigg. Ardersier Port Ltd has also lodged a PAN for further work at another North Sea oil and gas yard in the company has been redeveloping 450-acre (182ha) site at Ardersier on the Moray this month, it was announced the port is to serve as an assembly and operations centre for the Aspen offshore wind farm, off the Aberdeenshire PAN outlines proposals for further dredging of Ardersier Port's harbour and construction of a new recently the yard was one of the largest vacant industrial, or brownfield sites, in the the 1970s it was used for the construction of offshore platforms for the then newly-established North Sea gas and oil its height the yard employed about 4,500 people but it closed in 2001 as demand along with Nigg, form parts of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Invergordon timber factory fire extinguished
Firefighters have successfully put out a large blaze at a timber factory in is understood to have broken out at the Balcas Energy plant at Cromarty Firth Industrial Park on Wednesday afternoon.A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said nine fire appliances and specialist resources were at the scene at the height of the spent over 28 hours battling the fire and left the scene at about 19:15 on Thursday.
BBC News
15-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Firefighters tackle blaze at Invergordon industrial Park
Firefighters have been working to extinguish a blaze at a timber factory in Invergordon. The fire was understood to have broken out at the Balcas Energy plant at Cromarty Firth Industrial Park on Wednesday afternoon.A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said nine fire appliances and specialist resources were at the scene at the height of the fire engines remain at the industrial park.
