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Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced the appointment of Dr Stuart Black as its next chief executive

CGIs of the residential apartment scheme for land around Richmond Gardens car park. Picture: GWP Architecture UNANIMOUS approval has been given for plans to build more than 200 flats around the edge of a Bournemouth car park. BCP Council’s planning committee gave its backing to the latest scheme for the Richmond Gardens site on Thursday. Councillors said the development was preferred to the previously-approved student housing scheme and welcomed taking “a chunk” out of the council’s housing shortfall. Developers Summix RGB Developments Ltd and Sheet Anchor had plans to build m...

In England and America, selling bird seed for feeders is a big business. In Delhi, people toss bits of meat into the air for black kites. Fleets of ships ply the oceans to catch fish for domestic cats, the descendants of predatory land animals. Humans feed animals all the time, whether it’s our pets, the chickens we plan to eat or the ducks at the park pond, even though we shouldn’t. Throughout history in fat years and lean across many cultures, sometimes with no apparent reason, humans have fed animals of every imaginable stripe in every imaginable way. Some researchers think the desire ...

Prince of Wales coupling rods ENGINEERS working on a new Gresley class p2 steam locomotive are delighted to have received an early Christmas present of a pair of machined coupling rods. The project to build locomotive No 2007 Prince of Wales, at Darlington Locomotive Works, has been ongoing for seven years with a fundraising target of £210,000 to pay for manufacture of the heavy motion. £175,000 plus Gift Aid has already pledged by 175 supporters. The Gresley class P2 2-8-2 ‘Mikados’ were the most powerful express passenger locomotives to operate in the UK. They were designed ...