BEAR Scotland are scheduled to begin essential maintenance tonight on both lanes of the A9 over Cromarty Bridge.
Temporary traffic lights will be in place between 7pm and 6am, Monday to Friday.
The lights will be removed outside weekday working hours, but a temporary 30 mph speed restriction will be in place 24 hours a day, as traffic will be travelling over temporary steel plates.
On Saturdays and Sundays, temporary traffic lights will be in place 24 hours a day to allow time to complete longer duration works. Occasionally this may continue beyond 6am on Mondays.
The works are being carried out at the south end of the bridge to repair concrete and steel defects caused by corrosion. They are expected to take around twenty weeks, at a total cost of two-point-nine million pounds.
A small group of Common Dolphins became trapped in the shallows in Badachro Bay on the south side of Loch Gairloch, on Saturday.
British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) Area Co-ordinator Donna attended with BDMLR Wester Ross medic Neil, when residents became concerned after one of the pod briefly beached.
Supported by a team from Inverness, BDMLR kept watch over the 3 adults and 2 calves until they left the Bay at 7.30 pm and swam out through the Narrows.
And in the football …
Ross County won its first competitive game since 1st March on Saturday, when it beat Queen of the South one-nil in the Premier Sports Scottish League Cup with a goal from returning loanee, Jay Henderson, 20 minutes from the end of the match.
Inverness Caley Thistle conceded a goal in the last minute of normal time in its match and was beaten one-nil by St Johnstone.
Both County and Caley Thistle play again tomorrow evening and need to win their respective matches to retain any chance of qualifying for the group stages of the tournament.
