Festivalgoers to help rewild the Highlands

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Music lovers attending this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – the Highland’s longest running and biggest music festival – are being encouraged to help rewild the Scottish Highlands by having their own trees planted by conservation charity Trees for Life. With growing concerns about the threats of climate … Read more

Elgin BID promise ‘bigger and better’ Food & Drink Festival

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Elgin BID’s popular Food and Drink Festival, now in its 9th year, is due back on Saturday 10 August, and a few stalls are still available The festival organisers promise that this year’s festival will be “bigger and better” than before, running for the first time as a … Read more

Benevolent Fund anniversary celebration

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] RAF Lossiemouth Voluntary Band will present an evening of music, provided by their Concert Band and Swing Band in aid of, and to celebrate, the RAF Benevolent Fund’s 100 year anniversary.  The concert will take place in St Giles Church, Elgin next Thursday, 27 June, at 7.30pm. Since … Read more

Help at hand for those in distress or emotional pain

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] An Aberdeen pilot programme which helps those in distress is being extended to the wider Moray area. The Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) programme is an innovative new service which provides early intervention to people in distress equipping them with the skills and support to manage the causes of … Read more

Cairngorm to Coast “a huge success”

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Outfit Moray’s 5th annual Cairngorm to Coast challenge event “a huge success”, say the forty-seven people who took part. The toughest challenges, hike & bike or bike-only 100km from Cairngorm to Lossie, finished at Windswept Brewing’s Tap Room, where the forty-two bikers were welcomed by a cheering crowd … Read more

Thumbs up for new nursery

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Children from Pilmuir Nursery in Forres have given their new nursery building a big thumbs up after going on a site visit last Thursday, 13 June. Due to open in early 2020, the new building signals a £2 million investment in the Forres nursery as part of the … Read more