Tom Ramage

United Kingdom

Journalist at Highland News & Media

Kingussie's hardest working newspaper reporter. I'm a news beast - feed me!

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Articles

Grantown ‘Square Go’ victory complete after Sheriff’s costs decision

3 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Grantown is celebrating the formal legal withdrawal of the Highland Council’s plan to charge the public for use of the market square in the town. At Inverness yesterday the Sheriff Court discharged the case in favour of the Grantown Community Council. The move follows the withdrawal of the local authority's petition reported by the Strathy last week. Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald said it had been ‘a difficult, complex and novel case’.
Kingussie meeting next week into public views on St Vincent’s Hospital cash

6 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Another meeting is being staged in the strath to discuss the way forward for the Burall bequest - over £300k left to St Vincent’s Hospital in Kingussie nearly a quarter of a century ago. Local campaigners wanting to see the remaining monies spent in Badenoch - with the hospital long closed and now set to be reserved for housing development by the new owners Highland Council - are hoping for a big turnout from the public at the Iona Gallery in Duke Street on Thursday week (June 12) from 10am.
Artists’ reunion leads to an exhibition week for all at Kingussie

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Next week sees the opening of an exhibition with a difference in Kingussie. “Patina” sees three local artists reunited to celebrate art ‘burnished with wear, giving a worth determined by age and authenticity.
Badenoch and Strathspey’s favourite delivery driver will swing his driver for charity

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Badenoch and Strathspey’s favourite delivery man is determined to deliver some life-saving help to those in the firing line of a deadline disease. Ian Lines and other members of Kings Golf Club in the Highland capital are planning to go the distance for Prostate Cancer UK this summer with their epic Big Golf Race, the UK’s biggest golf fundraising challenge. The numbers participating over the past four years has grown from nine to no fewer than 72 golfers.
‘Highland second-homers are hollowing out our communities’

1 week ago | northern-times.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Making it harder for the wealthy to hoard homes by increasing their tax is crucial to tackle the housing crisis in the Highlands, says local Scottish Greens MSP Ariane Burgess. The most recent data from the Scottish Government shows that second homes and short-term lets make up 7.99% of all housing in the Highlands. “This is 4.4 times the national average of 1.8%” she said.
Another glittering show in Aviemore by His Majesty’s Royal Marines

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

It was a triumphant return to MacDonalds Aviemore Resort auditorium last night for The Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines Scotland. Directed by Captain Ann Miller and WO2 Stuart Fothergill, the band performed a hugely entertaining programme which took the rapt audience from Orpheus in the Underworld (minus the garters and frilly knickers of the Can-Can) to Morricone’s La Califfa to Sinatra, and from Star Wars to German circuses, along with their stirring military fare.
Can Nextrade help cut the ‘Korea discount’?

1 week ago | eastasiaforum.org | Tom Ramage

South Korea’s Nextrade exchange — the country’s first alternative trading system to the long-dominant Korea Exchange (KRX) — debuted in March 2025. Nextrade extends trading hours, introduces lower transaction fees and increases product variation within capital markets. The persistent undervaluation of South Korean stocks compared to their Asia-Pacific counterparts is a phenomenon known as the ‘Korea discount’.
Sudden death of Aviemore and Glenmore favourite Scott Fleming (34) leaves gaping hole in strath

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Family, friends and the wider community are in mourning following the sudden death on Wednesday evening of Aviemore and Glenmore favourite Scott Fleming. ‘Scotty’ had been Mine Host at the ever popular Pine Marten Bar + Scran in Glenmore since November 2018 and had built up a formidable range of customers and friends around the globe. His body was discovered at his home in Aviemore’s Callart Road and there are believed to be no suspicious circumstances.
‘Highland second-homers are hollowing out our communities’

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

Making it harder for the wealthy to hoard homes by increasing their tax is crucial to tackle the housing crisis in the Highlands, says local Scottish Greens MSP Ariane Burgess. The most recent data from the Scottish Government shows that second homes and short-term lets make up 7.99% of all housing in the Highlands. “This is 4.4 times the national average of 1.8%” she said.
It’s a grey area but could this be Badenoch’s thin end of the wedge?

1 week ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Tom Ramage

The alarm has gone up in Badenoch after a reported sighting of a grey squirrel, but there has as yet been no confirmation. Last night Facebook carried a notification from Aviemore & Spey Valley Community Issues Forum with a none-too-clear photograph. “Grey squirrel sighting in Kingussie!” posted Rachel Avery. “There’s been a recent sighting of a grey squirrel in Kingussie (Campbell Crescent). “This is very bad news indeed if true for our native red squirrels.