Achnasheen

A MECHANIC lost his licence after admitting driving his motorbike at 106mph on a Ross-shire road. Inverness Sheriff Court heard that police followed Shaun Miller before they were able to catch up and stop him in Achnasheen. He was initially seen ...

A motorist who reached speeds of up to 103mph as he overtook a line of motor cyclists on the A832 at Achanalt by Achnasheen in Ross-shire, escaped a driving ban at Inverness Sheriff Court today. Solicitor Ronnie Simpson told Sheriff Margaret Neilson ...

Esdert Prins, a development director with a security firm from Ameide in the Netherlands was visiting a friend in Scotland when the Porsche he was driving on the A832 was stopped by police at Achanalt near Achnasheen. Sheriff Margaret Neilson heard ...

A motorist who was caught driving a Porsche at more than twice the 60mph speed limit on a Ross-shire road was given a one-year UK driving ban and a £500 fine yesterday. Dutchman Esdert Prins admitted doing 130mph on the A832 Garve to Achnasheen ...

The diversion route during the overnight closure is A890 Strathcarron to Achnasheen; A832 Achnasheen to Garve; A835 Garve to Tore Roundabout; A9 Tore to Inverness; A82 Inverness to Invermoriston; A887 / A87 Invermoriston to Auchtertyre and vice versa.

There is no longer a school, post office or filling station and one of the two hotels burnt down in the mid-1990s and the site is still bare. Gamekeeper Ronnie Ross, who has worked on a local estate for half a century and has no plans to retire just ...