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Well done IHE .........this is the first time I have ever been mentioned in a Panto

From £58 per night at the moment but I don't think it as luxurious as it once was!

It would have been the Station Hotel when you were in Inverness and it has now reverted back to its old name, Station Square is just to the left of the photo.

Not many photos of boats at the Anderson St Quay, if they were cars I could put a date on it!

That's the first picture in the thread IHE..............on the Christmas wine already?

I am not sure if this is a windup IHE

Train operator Scotrail has announced a £475m programme, pledging new trains, thousands of extra seats, more at-seat power points and better wifi. Including improved trains for the north. ScotRail's new High Speed Train fleet will be introduced from autumn 2017 and throughout 2018 and used on the Glasgow-Aberdeen, Edinburgh-Aberdeen, Glasgow-Inverness, Edinburgh-Inverness and Aberdeen-Inverness routes. As this fleet is made up of four and five-carriage trains, rather than current three-carriage trains, the seating capacity will increase on these services by, on average, 36%. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35153722

Disappointed with the team performance today, thought Horner had a shocker of a game and should have been hooked at half time, Mutombo did nothing to help the team when he came on and what's the point of bringing on Sho-Silva with 2 minutes to full time? After all that I was happy with a point at the end although it was not enough to redeem Horner for me, I hope Raven starts next week! Seen Meekings, Roberts, Brill and Horner in Millburn Takeaway tonight but kept quite as they are all much bigger than me

Reading in todays Inverness Courier there is huge opposition to a £10 million new community centre which Highland Council are planning after spending over £1 million in recent years! They have been very good at spending our money over the years on things like this that people don't want. There are many ways to save money but as we all know the easy option is always to cut staff.

Scarlet it's a hit or a miss with the weather these days, we usually have good weather at the end of may for my birthday

Gee whiz Charles fill up your glass its getting near Christmas

A good news for Inverness story from this weeks budget. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35125965

Merry Christmas to one and all even CB , I don't think we will have a year like 2015 but we live and hope, thanks for all the old pictures on the Old Inverness thread IHE

Well done Sneckboy that gives us an idea of what it might be like, while it will not have the same pull as the Scottish Cup it is worth a try.

DD I posted the link knowing you would read it as I had not seen anything about floods in Africa.............too much wine perhaps

Aye that's them, they have buggered the A9 but the SNP are building us a dual carriageway

You miss the point. The new crossing is irrelevant to this discussion. Charles, I am not missing the point, you re getting yourself all in a muddle! You started a thread called "Performance of SNP in exercising devolved powers" so what I said is relevant to the discussion. What is causing indefinite mayhem throughout central Scotland and beyond is the non-functionality of the current crossing which, under the stewardship of the SNP, has been the subject of a number of warnings and recommendations which have been ignored. The result is that we now have this catastrophic event which only became identifiable once the condition of the bridge had been allowed to get so bad that a visible fault emerged. The problem probably has financial origins, but not from the source the Nats would predictably claim. It was, for instance, the SNP's decision to dispense with £12 million a year in toll revenues. The good people of Fife and the surrounding area have wecomed the tolls being taken of this bridge as have the people in Skye. It is not just the financial side but the time wasted in the queues waiting to pay the tolls which in some cases it was up to an hour! This joins the list of other crowdpleasing measures such as free tuition and presriptions for all where the SNP clearly decided that hey could get the best resulting return at the ballot box rather than invest in maintenance of the Forth Bridge. So the reality is that the Transport Minister's problem with his stiffening truss end is the product of the neglect of his own party on their watch. Father Jack was sacked for far less. "Is that a stiffening truss end you've got in your pocket Derek - or are you just pleased to see your First Minister?"

When the bridge was designed the maximum weight for lorries was 24 tons, the year the bridge was opened it was increased to 32 tons and is now at 44 tons. With the huge increase in traffic as volumes as well is the main reason that the SNP pushed ahead with the building of the new crossing which all the other parties were against at the time, lucky they have a majority!

Well done Mantis that is just like a BBC Open All Mic's report on a Saturday afternoon and they have a teamsheet!

Maybe we should change the title to " Rants against the SNP"

DD you can read the BBC article on the link below which will give you some more information and facts on the First Ministers trip. We take our water for granted up here and even south of the border I would prefer a glass of wine instead, enjoy your trip. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35020463

Great viewing Alex it is good that the past times have been recorded and now online for all to see, didn't pick out IHE though!

"Goonbaiting" could be a term used today when someone puts a one liner in the forum and gets a history lesson in reply

He was so busy "Nat Bashing" that he missed it

DD you are wrong quoting 9 years, the SNP were wanting to make a start on the A9 in their first term but all the other parties voted against it and the money was used to bail out the Edinburgh Trams!