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A £315 million ten year City Deal for Inverness and the surrounding Highland area has been confirmed.

The Highland Capital will benefit from a £135 million Scottish Government investment into the city’s infrastructure with the UK Government committing £53 million and Highland Council and regional partners contributing £127 million.

Funding will be targeted towards improving the regions transport and digital connectivity networks, fostering innovation of high growth businesses through the creation of a Northern Scotland Innovation Hub, promoting tourism and delivery of local housing and assisted living schemes.

It will provide a step change in providing opportunities to enhance and accelerate the delivery of long-term aspirations, through;

• Investment in the trunk road network to deliver the strategic A9/96 West Link Road improvement and a flyover at the Longman interchange

• Investment in Inverness Castle to support local tourism and the regional economy

• Investment to deliver 6,000 new houses over 20 years of which, 1,800 are to be affordable homes

• Support the commercialisation of new medical products and technologies at the new multi-disciplinary centre for clinical research and teaching on the UHI campus.

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21 hours ago, IBM said:

It might just be me but I can't get into that modern art.

Nor can I. It looks more like it was done by Edvard Munch.... The Inverness Scream. The river looks as if it's flowing in the wrong direction. And since when have we had street lights on the bridge? Maybe the artist was one of IHE's lock-in cronies.

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On ‎20‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 7:37 AM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Beauty or Beast ?

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For a modern building I do like it and it is very nice to walk around the area although I did have thoughts of when I was young that would have been great for the bike :wink:

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Goodness Gary-acious! Is that a modern sculpture of the Loch Ness Monster snaking along the wooden boulevard ?

Surely it has little to do with this lovely northern City. Is this deemed to be reflective of the Highlands.?

I could perhaps see it as being somewhat reflective of the products and work of a logging town in a north west Washington or Oregon State in the western United States but here this just seems to be more of a waste of money. Or what am I missing?

If IHE  comes out of yon building on a dark night after having quaffed a pint or two then, for sure, he is going to stub his toe on the curvy thing and come a cropper on the boardwalk. He might even fall overboard and it would be more our loss rather than his, since he would be unable to feel anything whereas our loss would be deeply felt in the heart. It would be so unfair....:whoosh:

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6 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

WTF again

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What confidence can we have in councillors who defy the clear will of the population and persist with nonsense like this, telling us that we're getting it whether we like it or not? By the way does the guy in the orange jumper (the "architect" I think) not look a wee bit like a cross between Roddy Davidson and Mark McAllister?

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