Article By Val Sweeney Published: 17:30, 11 March 2021
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Residents are upset that trees between Raigmore estate and the hospital are to be cut down to create a bus link.
Angry residents in an Inverness neighbourhood have started a petition in a bid to prevent trees from being felled to make way for a controversial bus lane.
The trees, some said to be hundreds of years old, form the boundary between Raigmore Estate and Raigmore Hospital.
But some are to be felled so a bus gate can be created, allowing buses to run from Churchill Road/Ashton Road on the estate and through the hospital site to Old Perth Road under a long-standing planning condition attached to Inverness Campus.
New jobs created in the Highlands to support call handling for Police Scotland By Ian Duncan
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Updated: 16:25, 09 February 2021
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Police Scotland.
A total of 15 new posts have been created in the Highlands to further enhance the development of call handling services for Police Scotland.
The 15 resolution team assistants will support a specialist team of officers and staff already working in the resolution team based at the Old Perth Road headquarters in Inverness.
The team has been in place since last October, providing additional resilience to 101 and 999 services and bringing their enhanced local knowledge and experience of policing urban, remote and island communities to the national Contact Command and Control service.
Lochinver man gets driving ban after drug driving in Inverness By Ali Morrison Published: 06:45, 29 January 2021
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Kyle Matheson (31), of Lochinver, was also banned from driving for two years at Inverness Sheriff Court.
He had previously admitted five charges including having cocaine in his possession when stopped by police in Old Perth Road on March 12 ,2020.
A urine test showed that it contained 16 times the permitted amount of cocaine in his system to drive.
He was again stopped by police on May 22 on the Kessock Bridge and the same test was carried out. It showed he had over seven times the permitted amount.
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Drug driver banned for two years at Inverness Sheriff Court for three offences; Kyle Matheson, formerly of Ross-shire but now living in Sutherland, was also ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service By Ali Morrison Published: 17:03, 25 January 2021
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Inverness Justice Centre. Picture: Gary Anthony.
A FORMER Ross-shire motorist who drove on three occasions after taking cocaine was ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid community work.
Kyle Matheson, formerly of Rhue, near Ullapool and now of the Old Coach House, Lochinver, was also banned from driving for two years when he appeared for sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court last week.
Wester Ross motorist who drove after taking cocaine on three occasions must await fate By Ali Morrison
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Updated: 18:12, 17 December 2020
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Kyle Matheson of Rhue, Ullapool, did not appear personally at Inverness Sheriff Court.
His solicitor, Patrick O Dea, tendered guilty pleas to a total of five charges.
The first was on March 12 ,2020 when Matheson was stopped by police in Old Perth Road, Inverness and had cocaine in his possession.
A urine test showed that it contained 16 times the permitted amount of cocaine in his system to drive. The reading was 800mcgs of Benzoylecognine, a metabolyte of cocaine excreted in the urine. The limit is 50mcgs.