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Contract for works at Portree harbour, Isle of Skye

Works to repair the pier in Portree are to get underway later this month.
Highland Council has awarded a £1.2 million contract to Mackenzie Construction for the repair of the existing pier.
The work will include concrete deck repairs, repairs to

I’m pleased that agreement has been reached with the EIS and COSLA to suspend planned teacher strikes.

This deal supports teachers, protects learning time for pupils, especially those preparing for exams, and shows what can be achieved through constructive partnership.

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

"Iran was nowhere close to a #nuclear bomb, experts say."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

@robharrisreports.bsky.social on the world cup: "This is a war launched by a world cup co-host... against one of the participating nations"

What's happened in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the Iran war? Israel has closed the Rafah border crossing and Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have continued.

Israel has closed the Rafah border crossing and Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have continued.

Today Pete Hegseth told us the Iranian leadership are hiding underground, cowering like rats.

Meanwhile over on Al Jazeera we can watch an interview with Irans chief justice on the streets of Tehran as the bombs fall.

Protesters hold placards and wave Palestinian flags as they march towards the US embassy to mark International al-Quds Day, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [Fazry Ismail/EPA]

Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) march on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran. [Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency/Reuters]

Muslims protesting against the United States and Israel and expressing solidarity with Iran and Palestinians in Gaza, shout slogans during the annual al-Quds Day rally, in Magam, north of Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

Protesters expressing solidarity with Iran and Palestinians in Gaza, shout slogans during the annual al-Quds Day rally outside the US embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. [Dita Alangkara/AP Photo]

Thousands march worldwide in solidarity with Palestine, Iran on al-Quds Day https://aje.news/vbkj81

Ok, I'm no military strategist BUT Iran controlling shipping here makes sense. They're protecting the vast majority of their coastline from attack by sea. Let's get real, if it was the USA they'd do the same damn thing!

Pete Hegseth uses part of his press conference on the war with Iran to attack the US media for being unpatriotic & spreading fake news.

All Scottish school strikes suspended as deal reached

NEW: Strikes planned across schools in Scotland have been called off after a deal was struck 🚨

Crowd gathered on a city street with text announcing the Scottish Election Appeal has reached £100,000 in donations.

🥳 We’ve hit our £100,000 target in a little over a day.

Now we’re pushing on to a new target: £120,000 - to scale this pro-Scotland, pro-independence campaign and reach even more voters online.

If you can, chip in today: www.snp.org/appeal

Labour 'gave us no details' of caveat on £10m Scottish fund, Kate Forbes says THE UK Government did not give their Scottish counterparts any prior notice before telling the media that a £10 million investment would be…

Scotland already contributes around £5 billion a year to UK defence through UK taxes.(GERS)

Defence is a reserved matter, so if Westminster wants defence colleges or facilities, they should fund them fully instead of asking Scotland to pay 50% of the bill.

www.thenational.scot/news/2593224...

#BoycottWorldCup

"These pictures coming out of Iran, from the Iranian capital Tehran. Large numbers of people massing on the street. The reason being it is Al Quds day, an annual event.. to express solidarity with the Palestinian people"

The moral principle is that if you break it, you own it.
Israel & USA have broken Gaza, Lebanon & Iran, yet US/Israel reject any responsibility for the damage & death they have caused.
They can bully & smash Palestine but maybe not the Gulf States, who are now asking why they are being destroyed.

At first i thought “why do they need another war” but then i realised it’s all part of the same war. It’s the Genocide and ethnic cleansing to create greater Israel!

Minister Michael Shanks: "Ultimately the only way we can get back to some version of normality here is to de-escalate this whole situation.."

The UK govt is allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran.

Shanks is treating us like fools.

JUST IN: 🇹🇷🇮🇱 Turkey says “expansionist Israel” aims to deepen regional instability.

"This is the scene live in Tehran at the moment... they are marking Quds day in Tehran, an annual day to support Palestinians"

Thirty years ago, 16 children and their teacher were killed at Dunblane Primary School and 15 more children were injured.

Scotland will never forget the suffering and the unimaginable loss the families have endured. We will always hold them all in our hearts.

Nida' Ibrahim reports on ongoing violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including a mosque being set on fire

Indeed not a single UK airbase should be being used by the USA to bomb Iran.

The public do not support it, not in Scotland, not in the rest of the UK.

Itay Epshtain @ @EpshtainItay X.com Landed in Tel Aviv tonight, to find myself surrounded - as is publicly visible - by US war planes. Under the law of armed conflict, civilian airports are, by their nature, civilian objects. The starting point is the general rule of distinction reflected in Article 52(1) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, which provides that civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or reprisals. Indeed, the mere fact that the object belongs to a State that is party to an armed conflict does not alter its civilian character. As with all objects in armed conflict, however, the legal characterization depends not solely on the object's nature but also on its use in the circumstances prevailing at the time.

Civilian objects become military objectives when, by their nature, location, purpose, or use, they make an effective contribution to military action and when their destruction, capture, or neutralization offers a definite military advantage. A civilian airport that is used to host, service, refuel, arm, or dispatch military aircraft may therefore lose its civilian protection, at least in respect of the parts of the installation that are being used for military purposes. In such circumstances the object may qualify as a military objective by use. The transformation is functional rather than formal: it does not require the airport to be formally designated a military airbase. What matters is whether the facilities contribute effectively to military operations, for example by enabling combat aircraft to

launch sorties or sustain military deployments in an international armed conflict. flightradar24 •Haifa WEST BANK Jerusalem© GAZA STRO •Be'dsheva Israel Google N/A K35R United States - Air Force TLV TEL AVIV Departed 03:31 ago © lan Howat N/A NOT AVAILABLE BAROMETRIC ALT. 9,300 ft GROUND SPEED Arriving in N/A 302 kts Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker REG 62-3498

⚠️ The US and Israel are reportedly using Ben Gurion Airport for military purposes—which means they’re using civilians as human shields.

Jared Kushner told Donald Trump to start this war.

A man with even less intelligence and fewer skills than his useless father-in-law.

Donald Trump should be impeached and then both of them put on trial.

In two minutes this doctor explains why anti-trans hysteria is completely unscientific and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how transitioning facilitated through the medical system actually works

If elected Sarwar will introduce the US tech company Palantir into NHS Scotland. Palantir has assisted the Israeli Govt to carry out a genocide in Gaza & has contracts from NHS England. Palantir promoted to the UKGovt by Mandelson’s PR company Global Council, defunct now due to Epstein allegations.

The very last thing the U.K. needs is a bad actor like Musk with a toe hold control in our energy supply market.

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say.

In Scientific American. @sciam.bsky.social

No surprise, Trump is lying.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

That is a unanimous, adamant YES. The sooner the better.