INCREASINGLY it is becoming vital in this world to know your way around a computer.

Whether it is for business or pleasure, job-hunting or leisure, it just seems everyone these days wants to reach you through www.com. And if you don’t know your way around Information Technology, you are soon going to feel badly left out.

For Merkinchers there is an answer - a course at Merkinch Enterprise. Here in small friendly groups in comfortable surroundings you can learn the basics to give you confidence on the computer, whether it is word-processing, databases, spreadsheets or the internet. In charge of training is Gordon Nairn who has been a year with the charity now. He is noted for his patience and know-how. The courses, mornings or afternoons, are funded through the European Social Fund with assistance from Inverness & Nairn Enterprise and Merkinch Enterprise. And they are free to the registered unemployed. New courses are just starting, so why not drop in at 14 Grant Street and ask for more information now.