Motorists are reminded that traffic restrictions are in place with altered speed limits and some roads closed to through traffic around the site of the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival which starts tomorrow and continues until Saturday night.
With headline acts Paul Heaton, Supergrass and Texas, around 20,000 people are expected to attend over the three days of the Festival with many families taking advantage of the extensive facilities provided for young children. While some traffic measures are lifted on Sunday, others remain in force until Friday 8thAugust. Full details are on the Highland Council website.
And there’s extensive television coverage of the Belladrum Festival including broadcasts live on BBC Alba or on demand on BBC iPlayer from tomorrow afternoon.
RWE, one of the world’s leading offshore wind companies, and The Oyster Restoration Company with a hatchery at Aultbea, have successfully completed a feasibility project that proves large-scale native oyster reef restoration can be executed at offshore wind farms in the North Sea.
The project is a pathfinder for the wider offshore wind industry, identifying credible biodiversity solutions that are scalable and verifiable, in line with efforts to positively impact on the marine environments around its offshore projects.
Flat oysters are an important species because they can create reefs that provide food and breeding grounds for many other species. Due to the harmful impacts of factors such as overfishing, pollution, and parasites, only 5% of the pre-industrial population remains across the North Sea. Through laboratory tests, the project evaluated different natural and artificial hard substrates to decide which could be deployed to maximize the creation of new reefs with measurable biodiversity gain.
The Applecross Photographic Gallery is celebrating its tenth anniversary by returning to its roots. The Gallery was opened in 2015 by photographer Jack Marris who specializes in landscape photography with the land shaping his work continuously.
The anniversary was marked by a return trip to the summit of Beinn Alligan which is where Jack Marris took his first mountain top sunset and sunrise panoramas. He was accompanied by some of the people who have been instrumental in the success of the business which has every piece sold being made in Scotland helping to promote sustainable, slow tourism in the Applecross area and beyond.
