East Leagues report

By Bill Nicol

08/11/17 There were 2 club derby’s in Division 2 of the Moray Province East curling league last week. In the battle of the Forres rinks, it was a ding dong derby with Howard Anstruther’s rink just shading Mike McDonald by the odd shot in 11. Meanwhile along to the east, the Fochabers fixture was won…

Moray Leisure Centre as at 30/10/17

By Bill Nicol

Ice4all Published by Richard Simmers · 18 hrs On behalf of all the ice rink users, following last week’s worrying media report about Moray Leisure Centre, I emailed MLC board of directors asking for some clarification on the report. Below is the reply I received today from the MLC board. I hope that this will ease some of…

Northern County Lady Curlers

By Bill Nicol

Please see below a letter supplied for publication by Sandra McIver a member of Northern County Lady Curlers. The letter is to Inverness Ice Centre regarding I C L C thoughts on discussions taking place between the Inverness Ice Centre Board and “High Life”. The relevance of course to us is that Moray Council has…

East League Report 25/10/17

By Bill Nicol

With the school holiday over, competition resumed in the Moray Province East curling programme. Alastair Maltman’s Bank rink, skipped by the vastly experienced Frank Ross were big winners in the Open Knockout preliminary round.  Handshakes after 6 ends found the Bankers 11-0 victors over the unfortunate Rob Stenton ,skipping Bob Stewart’s rink. Maltman should obviously…

Northern Scott take on M L C future

By Bill Nicol

All quiet on leisure centre future   Moray Leisure Centre USERS of Moray Leisure Centre in Elgin remain in the dark about whether the facility will close.   Taxpayers fund an annual subsidy, this year £698,000, via Moray Council to Moray Leisure Ltd to run the centre on an “arm’s length agreement”. The council made the…