In January 2008, a petition to matriculate armorial bearings for the City of Inverness was refused by Lord Lyon King of Arms on the grounds that there is no corporate body or legal persona to whom arms can be granted.

The river flows through the heart of the City of Inverness and fishermen in waders can often be seen casting for salmon.

Passengers can travel to Inverness, Edinburgh Waverley and Aberdeen with a change at Stirling, however for journeys to or from Edinburgh passengers with heavy luggage may find it more convenient to change at Larbert, where Edinburgh and Glasgow services use the same platform.

Highland Scottish can be traced back to 1952 when Highland Omnibuses was created when Highland Transport, Macrae & Dick and Alexanders Town Services in Inverness were joined together.

Major General Sir Robert Bellew Adams VC KCB ( Muree, Punjab, India, 26 July 1856 – 13 February 1928, Inverness ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Such stores can be found in Grangemouth, St Andrews, Campbeltown, Monifieth, Inverness, Fort William Helensburgh And Stranraer to name but a few.

The accents can be divided into three categories: the Western or Scottish Gaelic accent ( Inverness, Judique, Mabou, the Margarees ), the Industrial accent ( Sydney, Glace Bay ) and the French Acadian ( communities surrounding Cheticamp, L ' Ardoise and Isle Madame ).

Many of the passengers on the trains are tourists but one can also expect to meet locals visiting Inverness for shopping, and commuters.

He lives principally in an apartment in New York and later inherits the mansion and estate of Inverness, so we can assume a good deal of family money.

* The Madonna Vampyra, an " energy vampire ," but also the queen of the " Lotus Land ," which can be accessed through The Fourth Tower of Inverness.

You would either have to fly into Inverness Airport ( Dalcross ) and take one of the above methods, or light airplanes can land at Dornoch aerodrome.

Several Second World War airfield buildings in various states of decay can be seen from the road to Inverness and Portmahomack.

These homes were mostly situated around the edge of the Inverness Golf Club and were designed to be affordable to young couples.

In 1962, Inverness was incorporated as a Village to be governed by a President and Board of Trustees.

As seen in some of the later comics series, the hat and scarf would also be worn with either a black Inverness coat or Inverness cape.

The overcoat should be a dark dress coat such as a Chesterfield overcoat, Inverness cloak, or opera cloak.

In November 2011 the Scottish Government announced that it will upgrade the entire road from Perth to Inverness to dual carriageway, although work would not be completed until 2025.

Fergus Ewing, Scottish National Party MSP for Inverness and Nairn ( and prior to 2011 Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber ), has been canvassing for a Nairn by-pass to be developed.

An extremely ambiguous account of events was subsequently sent from Inverness to King Edward by Bishop Cheyne on 25 August, relates that after some discussion, Moray and his rebel-army withdrew into very great stronghold of bog and wood no horseman could be of service.

The entire Act consists of a single effective section, which reads, " As from the date of the passing of this Act, the Island of Rockall ( of which possession was formally taken in the name of Her Majesty on 18th September 1955 in pursuance of a Royal Warrant dated 14th September 1955 addressed to the Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Vidal ) shall be incorporated into that part of the United Kingdom known as Scotland and shall form part of the District of Harris in the County of Inverness, and the law of Scotland shall apply accordingly.

First a school teacher in Glasgow, Inverness and then Edinburgh, it was while teaching in Inverness that be began to contribute to the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness and the Celtic Review.

In 1788, thirteen Highland gentlemen met in Inverness to discuss how the social life in the North of Scotland might be enlivened.

* Knocknagael Boar Stone, Highland Council HQ, Glenurquhart St, Inverness — Class I stone to be seen through a large window.

His force marched north into the Highlands but, believing the rebel force to be stronger than it really was, avoided an engagement with the Jacobites at the Pass of Corryairack and withdrew northwards to Inverness.

As more crews got used to them, the class could be found far from home territory at destinations as diverse as Aberdeen, Inverness, Port Talbot, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and even London.

* H-dropping, not generally found in Scots or Scottish English dialects, has been reported to be a standard speech feature in the Black Isle, near Inverness.

Once more Norman found himself in the lead at Inverness until he stumbled on Sunday again.

The name " Firth of Inverness " is rarely found on modern maps, but extended from the Beauly Firth in the west, to Chanonry Point in the east.

Inverness City finally joined in 2006 – 07 season having found a home ground at North Kessock.

The season had started well but a narrow defeat in the Cooperative Insurance League Cup at Gayfield on penalties to SPL side Inverness Caledonian Thistle triggered a sequence of losses and the Lichties found themselves in the bottom half of the table.

In 1747 Colonel William Skinner, the King's Military Engineer for North Britain, let a contract to rebuild the fortress, but Inverness Council made a claim for compensation for the loss of part of its harbour and an alternative site was found.

Despite scoring on his debut, Barrowman struggled to live up to his potential and found himself in and out of the Inverness team in his first season.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

The term " monster " was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness Courier.

II Corps resumed operations to capture Nonne Bosschen, Glencorse Wood and Inverness Copse around the Menin Road on 22 August, an operation which failed with heavy losses on both sides.

When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.

During the summer, his family resides near Inverness on Cape Breton Island, where he spends part of his time " writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island.

The Highland site is on the outskirts of Inverness and within the grounds of Raigmore Hospital.

East Coast runs inter-city express services on the East Coast Main Line to Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, Wakefield, Lincoln, Hull, York, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness.

James Harnett, a journalist with Golf Illustrated magazine, appears to have proposed a similar idea to the PGA of America on December 15, 1920 and, having failed to attract support, the idea was refloated by Sylvanus P. " SP " Jermain, president of the Inverness Club, the next year.

The Central Delta Academy in Inverness closed on May 21, 2010.

The Firth of Inverness is rarely identified on modern maps, but forms a connection via the River Ness, Loch Ness and the other lochs of the Great Glen and stretches of the Caledonian Canal with the Firth of Lorne on the west coast of Scotland.

** Places on the Moray Firth: Inverness, Nairn, Fortrose, Fort George.

An F2 tornado damaged business buildings of Indian Springs as well as Pelham, Helena, and Inverness on Palm Sunday March 27, 1994.

An F2 tornado damaged business buildings here along with Indian Springs, Helena, and Inverness on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994.

Inverness is located on the southwest shore of Tomales Bay northwest of Point Reyes Station, at an elevation of 43 feet ( 13 m ).

Inverness is north of San Francisco, on a bay of the Pacific Ocean.

Inverness is located on the west shore of Tomales Bay, which runs southeast along the line of the San Andreas Fault.

Inverness is spread out along approximately of the western shore and valleys of Tomales Bay on the Point Reyes Peninsula, it provides services to visitors to the Point Reyes National Seashore and Tomales Bay State Park.

Bordered on the east by the Withlacoochee River and in the middle of the Withlacoochee State Forest, Floral City is 7 miles south of Inverness, Florida on US 41 and CR 48 ( formerly SR 48 ) and 13 miles north of Brooksville, Florida.

Per official city documentation, Inverness was incorporated on March 6, 1917.

The small town was virtually wiped away on February 21, 1971 when an F5 tornado struck portions of Louisiana and Mississippi, as 36 people were left dead in rural Mississippi in the wake of the storm ; 21 of the victims were from Inverness.