Highlands and Islands Enterprise reports productive year
A development agency has said its work during 2011-12 had stimulated growth and attracted new business to the Highlands, Moray and Argyll.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has published its end of year results.
During those 12 months it invested in projects at Scrabster in Caithness, Nigg in Easter Ross, Machrihanish in Argyll and Kirkwall in Orkney.
HIE chairman Prof Lorne Crerar said the agency had a productive year in difficult economic times.