A Wester Ross community garden has been presented with a prestigious national award.
Gairloch Sitooterie team member David Carruthers collected the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society's Certificate of Merit award at a ceremony in Edinburgh last week.
The award is in recognition of Gairloch Sitooterie's highly regarded and significant contribution to horticulture and gardening in Scotland with many features exemplary and of importance for other coastal communities to learn from.
David said that the award was not only a tribute to the Sitooterie volunteer team, but also to the countless other supporters who have helped in so many ways to make the garden such a success.
The Sitooterie is one of only 5 groups in Scotland to have been selected for this award.
Road users on the A9 are warned of overnight traffic management between Jubilee Bridge and Ballinluig for approximately 4 weeks from tonight.
A temporary roundabout is being constructed leading to temporary traffic signals and a convoy system operating overnight between 7 pm and 6 am, Monday to Friday.
Torridon Mountain Rescue Team carried out a challenging rescue last week after a walker slipped on a snow covered slope and fell through scree and boulders.
The team was called out on Thursday afternoon to the incident near the summit of Bidean an Eoin Dearg (Bityan an Ian Jerig”) and was able to recover the casualty to a waiting ambulance at Gleuaig Lodge.
The whole operation, carried out in gale force wind with heavy rain and challenging terrain, took around fourteen hours, finishing at half past five on Friday morning. The condition of the casualty who had a shoulder injury and was becoming hypothermic has not been disclosed
Following Friday night’s matches in which Ross County was beaten three one by Partick Thistle and Inverness Caley Thistle was held to a one each draw by Queen of the South, other results at the weekend leave County in second bottom place in the Championship now seven points behind the team above, Ayr United.
In League One, Caley Thistle holds on to its lead of one point at the top of the table over Stenhousemuir with five matches remaining for each club.