Media release: Fort William Mountain Festival 2021 goes Covid-19 safe
THE new online programme for The Fort William Mountain Festival 2021 has been announced.
A superb collection of adventure films covering 12 different themes, each set comprising four to five uplifting, exhilarating and educational films from around the world.
As a direct result of the current Covid-19 restrictions, organisers of the Fort William Mountain Festival have today, Sunday 14 February 2021, announced a fully digital programme for the 17
th edition of the world-renowned festival.
Undeterred by the Covid-19 pandemic the organising committee of enthusiastic volunteers will present a stunning line-up of inspirational films; impressive action and adventure, educational and environmental, all organised from the bustling Highland town of Fort William, the beating heart of the ‘Outdoor Capital of the UK’.
Now Moray Council is working with RAF Lossiemouth, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Moray College UHI, The University of the Highlands and Islands, Skills Development Scotland, DYW Moray, NHS Grampian, Boeing and Gordon and MacPhail in efforts to create a more skilled workforce in years to come.
The local authority is also looking to recruit a Stem officer on £60,000 per year to continue and accelerate the process of changing the culture around Stem and build bases with various firms.
Council depute chief executive Rhona Gunn said the benefits will “be realised” 10-15 years from the beginning of the initiative.
Mrs Gunn said: “This workforce will also able to benefit from the opportunities that will arise in the skilled workforce to work remotely allowing the benefits of well paid jobs located elsewhere in the world to be spent locally.
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Furthermore, the local newspaper reported that “a large decorated stone with a pair of incised triangles and a series of rectangular bands running across the surface” was found. And all of these discoveries were made in earth that previous environmental sampling “suggests” dates back around 5,000 years.
Towrie discovered what “might” be a carved stone after noticing animal remains falling from an eroding section of shoreline in the Bay of Skaill. Dr Antonia Thomas, the Archaeology Institute s rock art specialist, said the large, decorated stone was “potentially a carved stone” similar to those discovered at Skara Brae. Furthermore, based on the scale of the eroded section Towrie said “we may well be looking at a Neolithic/ Bronze Age site on a par with Skara Brae.”
A Neolithic settlement dating back nearly 5,000 years has been discovered in Scotland and it could be on par with the world famous Skara Brae , experts predict.
Archaeologists discovered signs of the Neolithic village at the north end of the Bay of Skaill, Orkney after costal erosion unearth animal bones and a carved stone.
It is on the same island as Skara Brae which is considered the best preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe - dating back to 3,100 BC.
Sigurd Towrie from the University of the Highlands and Islands discovered a badly damaged wall that had been exposed by pounding tides and pouring rain.