• CONGRATULATIONS to one-year-old Ethan McNally of Benula Road who came in the only Inverness winner and overall third in a major Highland-wide Bonnie Baby contest run by the Highland News and Bambino’s.
• ONLY those whose dustbin days are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays will be affected over the festive period. Tuesdays - collections on Saturdays 22nd and 29th December. Wednesdays - 26th as normal, Saturday 5th January after New Year. All other days - normal collections apply. The waste and recycling centre on Henderson Drive will be open 9.30am to 8pm as normal except 25th December and 1st January.
• APOLOGIES to those who struggled with the Crossword last month. We did put the missing clue up in the window at No.14. This month’s Crossword, on a Chinese theme, is on page 12.

LETTERS to the Editor: Recently we have received a couple of letters with no or only partial addresses and no phone numbers. We have to be able to check, so unless full details are supplied, even if not for publication, we will not publish them. Sorry!