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Remembering former city cinema's magical Fairyland By Contributor Published: 20:30, 23 December 2020 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper He was the weaver of dreams, the man who made Christmas a colourful fantasy for parents and children alike. The year that’s ebbing away is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Jimmy Nairn, who began working life in a shipyard in Govan before becoming a cinema projectionist. Next year will be the 80th anniversary of his appointment as manager at the Playhouse Cinema, which...

 |  Updated: 13:24, 14 December 2020 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper How Barratt's Ness Castle will look once complete. An additional 42 affordable homes are to be built at Ness Castle in Inverness thanks to a partnership between Cairn Housing Association, Highland Housing Alliance (HHA) and Barratt Homes. This latest phase at the development includes 18 houses and cottage flats and 24 apartments for allocation by the two housing alliance partners and represents a total investment of £5.7 million in local ...

LOOKING BACK: Remembering Inverness's rise to city status By Contributor Published: 18:30, 14 December 2020 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Columnist Bill McAllister remembers how the Highland capital became a Millennium City. This is a milestone weekend for Friday, December 18, marks exactly 20 years since Inverness was named as one of the UK’s three new Millennium Cities. It was better late than never, for in 1897 the Royal Burgh of Inverness applied for city status as part of Queen Victoria’s Di...