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Report is first step towards turning around neglect of small businesses in Caithness and Sutherland By David Richardson Published: 16:30, 20 February 2021
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In these difficult times, wouldnât it be wonderful if we could seize the initiative and make Caithness and Sutherlandâs towns and villages first-choice places for starting and relocating businesses?
Of course, the answer is yes, but first we have to overcome a national problem; years of neglect.
Now, for the first time, a Scottish Government review has been honest about the damage inflicted on Scottish settlements in recent decades by the spread of out-of-town developments, including the growth of supermarkets, the exodus of key public and private sector institutions from town and city centres, the general disinvestment in those centres, and, of course, the growing phenomenon of onl
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