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There are challenging times ahead but also opportunities perhaps to change the way things are done in Nairn. This soundfile should be heard perhaps in conjunction with this video.

listen to ‘Alistair Noble at the Consultation meeting - a point about locality planning’ on Audioboo

Jemma's Secret - local acoustic act

Some Gurnites might have seen Jemma Tweedie performing locally but if not here's a chance to experience her material on the Gurn.

Jemma is a 19 year old, local singer/songwriter who is currently working on her first EP due for release on 26th October. In the run up to this she has been spreading her musical word to the likes of BBC introducing, Radio Clyde's Vic Galloway and new up and coming artist Jake Bugg. Having sparked interest from several others she is now preparing to perform at Bogbain Farm as the local support act for Charlotte Church on her lastest UK tour.

Having received her guitar as a Christmas present last year, Jemma quickly found a passion for songwriting and since then she has been performing at small venues around Nairn, Glasgow and Aberdeen. This observer enjoyed listening to tracks she has placed on the Souncloud site. One of them below plus more of Jemma from Youtube.

  Drunken Coastal Town (Preview) by Jemma's secret soundcloud



Jemma has a facebook music page here.

“Folk keep thinking that the cuts are going to be like the ones in Thatcher’s years but these cuts they’re worse”

The title of this post comes from a statement by Cllr Colin MacAulay speaking at Suburban Community Council’s meeting in the Academy last night.

There’s a consultation meeting in the Rosebank School gym tonight where the high heid yin Dave Fallows will be chairing the proceedings.

There is a school of thought that the last time round it was all smoke and mirrors and red herrings as the meeting was dominated by issues surrounding the potential closure of Nairn Swimming Pool. At the end of the previous administration’s consultation process they came out of nowhere with proposed cuts to Teaching Assistant posts. This time, hopefully, this administration will listen to the punters a bit better than the last ruling group did.

 Alistair Noble, told the meeting that he believed the cuts amounted to 5% per year for several years. His thesis is that Nairn should not get the cuts that other areas wil get because we never got our fair share in the first place. He will be going to the meeting with his argument tonight. Understandably consultation is almost a four letter word in Nairn and we look at the way we have been treated in the past with a profound cynicism in our minds. It is a new administration however and we have Colin and Liz representing us in Nairn. For the foreseeable future the way this administration treats Nairn will have a profound effect on their political reputations and that of the party they represent. This observer, like  the majority of voters in Nairn, trusts them and hopes that the new administration doesn’t let them and Nairn down and that we are treated better from now on.