Strathspey & Badenoch Herald

3 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Gavin Musgrove

Members of a Holyrood committee have been on a fact finding mission to the Cairngorms National Park. MSPs from the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee have visited three estates in the strath and held a community engagement event to further their scrutiny of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill. The visit began in Grantown on Sunday evening (May 11) with a community engagement event held in the offices of the Cairngorms National Park Authority.

3 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Gavin Musgrove

Published: 09:48, 13 May 2025 Your article in last week's edition of the Strathy (page 3) on the issue of first class stamps honouring a group of remarkable people associated with the Second Word War was most welcome and well timed. It was of special interest to "Strathy" readers that the only Scot mentioned was Sir Tommy Macpherson, a member of a well known and distinguished Newtonmore family.

4 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Gavin Musgrove

Plans have been lodged to realign 400 metres of the River Tromie near to Kingussie. The application has been lodged by RSPB Scotland for Insh Marshes with the aim of improving habitat for local wildlife and reducing the threat of flooding. The charity states in supporting information: “This project will realign the lower stretch of the River Tromie back onto the alluvial fan to create a more sustainable system.

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

As a new week starts in Badenoch’s Coop stores so do more rows of empty shelves. This afternoon’s checks demonstrate that headway is not being made by the company after the devastating cyber attack which so drastically affected the supply lines last week. While a certain amount of bread and milk is available, along with alcohol products, for example, there is still a crucial lack of fruit, veg and processed foods.

4 days ago | strathspey-herald.co.uk | Gavin Musgrove

The fledgling Cairngorm Community Cinema will be screening its latest movie… and it will be ‘The End’. Tilda Swinton, George MacKay and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon star in the film to be shown at the Spey Valley Cinema at the Macdonald Aviemore Resort on Wednesday evening. Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, one family clings to a sense of normalcy while confined to a palatial bunker.