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PICTURES: Firefighters tackle second major fire at Park Primary School in Invergordon, Ross-shire By Philip Murray
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Updated: 10:03, 27 February 2021
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FIREFIGHTERS were tackling another major fire at Invergordon s Park Primary School on Saturday morning.
Firefighters from Invergordon, Tain, Dingwall, Dornoch, Fortrose and Inverness were all scrambled to the scene shortly after the alarm was raised at 7.03am.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that a building measuring 50 metres by 20 metres was well alight, with flames through the roof .
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It is the second devastating fire to hit the school site in a year, and comes almost exactly a year ago to the day after the first, which tore through the school site on February 24 last year.
From the Northern Times 25, 50 and 100 years ago By Caroline McMorran Published: 19:07, 27 February 2021
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From the newspaper of March 1, 1996
Dornoch Academy, Scotland s first self-governing school, was this week finally given the go-ahead by the Secretary of State for Scotland to upgrade to six-year status. The news was received with jubilation at the Academy, but was greeted with intense disappointment by the various groups which have campaigned vigorously against both the opt-out and the upgrading. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth stressed he had taken into account all the representations made to him during the consultation period which ended in December last year.
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Covid-19 coronavirus testing sites set to go live in fire stations in Ullapool and Lochcarron in Wester Ross, following earlier launch of one at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service site in Gairloch By Philip Murray
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Updated: 13:33, 26 February 2021
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TWO more fire stations in Ross-shire will be providing local access to Covid-19 tests from next week.
Ullapool, which will be operating a small scale test site, and Lochcarron (which is a pick-up only test site) are among 21 such fire station sites across NHS Highland which are acting as test locations.