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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Factory proposed for ex-oil terminal site on Cromarty Firth
A factory for manufacturing offshore wind turbine components could be built on part of a former oil terminal on the Cromarty Firth. Global Energy has proposed the facility, which would be almost 17,000 sq metres (182,986 sq ft), for its Port of Nigg. The Highland-based civil engineering company acquired the port, a former oil and gas fabrication yard, in 2011. Plans for the factory are outlined in a proposal of application notice (PAN) submitted to Highland Council. The factory would be an extension to existing renewable energy sector work done at Nigg. Ardersier Port Ltd has also lodged a PAN for further work at another North Sea oil and gas yard in the Highlands. The company has been redeveloping 450-acre (182ha) site at Ardersier on the Moray Firth. Earlier this month, it was announced the port is to serve as an assembly and operations centre for the Aspen offshore wind farm, off the Aberdeenshire coast. The PAN outlines proposals for further dredging of Ardersier Port's harbour and construction of a new quay. Until recently the yard was one of the largest vacant industrial, or brownfield sites, in the UK. In the 1970s it was used for the construction of offshore platforms for the then newly-established North Sea gas and oil industry. At its height the yard employed about 4,500 people but it closed in 2001 as demand dropped. Ardersier, along with Nigg, form parts of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport. Up to £10m to be invested in green freeport quay Ardersier Port owners join green freeport group
Straits Times
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Prince William and wife Kate return to Scotland for wedding anniversary
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince William, and Kate, the Princess of Wales also known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visit DAY1, a Highland-based charity in Inverness, Scotland, Britain November 2, 2023. Paul Campbell/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, look up at the Royal Standard flying from the round tower following the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, near London, Britain October 12, 2018. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are seen walking after their wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey in central London, April 29, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo LONDON - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate will head to a picturesque, rural Scottish island on Tuesday where they will celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary and carry out their highest-profile joint trip this year. William, the heir to the throne, married Kate Middleton, as she was then called, on April 29, 2011, in Westminster Abbey in a ceremony watched by millions around the world. They had met a decade earlier when they were both undergraduates at the University of St Andrews on the Scottish east coast. Rather than marking their anniversary at home, the Prince and Princess of Wales, one of the world's most glamorous couples with Hollywood star appeal, will return to Scotland for a two-day visit to the Isles of Mull and Iona, part of the Hebrides archipelago off the west coast. British media reported that following their official duties, they would spend their anniversary at a small, isolated self-catered cottage on Mull, famed for its dramatic and beautiful scenery. The trip is a rare joint public outing for the couple, who have three children - George, 11, Charlotte, 9, and Louis, 7 - since Kate underwent preventative chemotherapy for cancer, for which she is now in remission. "Scotland is incredibly important to me and will always have a special place in my heart," William, who as heir holds the title Lord of the Isles, said back in 2021. "George, Charlotte and Louis already know how dear Scotland is to both of us... We have no doubt they will grow up sharing our love and connection to Scotland." During their trip, they will travel to the town of Tobermory on Mull, famed for its brightly coloured houses which overlook the harbour, and visit a market, food producers and community hubs on the islands to hear about the importance of protecting the natural environment, their office said. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
