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OPINION: Many unknowns as Highland area set for mixed fortunes due to Brexit and Covid-19 pandemic effects

  Article OPINION: Many unknowns as Highland area set for mixed fortunes due to Brexit and Covid-19 pandemic effects By Contributor Published: 19:30, 17 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper Brexit and Covid-19 s impacts make it difficult to predict what will happen to the Highland economy in 2021. IT is very difficult to forecast what will happen to the economy in 2021 for two main reasons: the continuing coronavirus pandemic and the impact of the Brexit decision for the UK to leave the European Union, writes Highland economist Tony Mackay.

OPINION: Highland economic forecast for 2021 - with Brexit and coronavirus, when might we return to pre-Covid levels of output?

Jim Hunter: I hope we rejoin the EU - it was our bulwark against another war

by Jim Hunter © Vadim Ghirda/AP/Shutterstock Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up My regrets about our departure from the European Union are bound up with an encounter that occurred as a result of a friend and I having set out, on a summer’s day in 1969 when I’d just turned 21, to hitch-hike through, as it turned out, no fewer than seven countries. On our backs we carried a tent of the sort that kids might play in, a camping-gas stove and a couple of dirt-cheap sleeping bags. In our pockets were traveller’s cheques to the value of £50 apiece – this being the maximum amount of cash (not that we had more anyway) it was permissible to take out of a UK in the grip of one of its perennial economic crises.

Pitlochry Dam: Controversial scheme sparked doom-laden fears of dried-up rivers and submerged homes

Pitlochry Dam: Controversial scheme sparked doom-laden fears of dried-up rivers and submerged homes © DC Thomson Water pours through the flood gates at Pitlochry Dam in August 1950, the year before it officially opened in 1951. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An electricity revolution, designed to power some of the remotest communities in Scotland, sparked into action 70 years ago. Gayle Ritchie looks at how Pitlochry Dam transformed life in Highland Perthshire forever.

Caithness and Sutherland businesses urged to sign up for FSB e-commerce webinar

Caithness and Sutherland businesses urged to sign up for FSB e-commerce webinar By Alan Hendry Published: 07:22, 13 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper The FSB e-commerce webinar will take place on January 28. Caithness and Sutherland businesses are being urged to sign up for a webinar later this month aimed at helping them make the most of online sales. The e-commerce event is being organised by David Richardson, Highlands and Islands development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, who points out that online trading is here to stay and it is a case of if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”.

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