There is a proposal to extend it to parts of Cornwall and the north west Highlands.
Their ships sailed from Loch Ewe in the north west Highlands to re-supply the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel.
Figures for the weather station at Kinlochewe in the north west Highlands showed it received 70% of the "normal" summer rainfall.
It was carrying a cargo of ornate ceramics from Portugal and Italy when it sank south of Kinlochbervie harbour in the north west Highlands.
Red squirrels have been absent from the north and west Highlands for about 30 years.
And forecasters warned they could fall to -20C in the North East and Highlands at the weekend.
Earlier this year, the firm won permission for a similarly large-scale fish farm on Loch Torridon in the north-west Highlands.
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There is possible evidence of foreign sailors setting up home in the north-west Highlands after their ships foundered off the Scottish coast.
The wet weather was forecast to sweep north into the Highlands with a warning in place of heavy rainfall into Friday morning.
During the OFT inquiry, the group commissioned its own survey which found a multi-million pound mark-up on prices north of the Highlands line.
Previous mink control projects have been undertaken in the Cairngorms National Park, Highlands and north east Scotland.
In October last year George Osborne named Cumbria, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire and the Highlands and Islands, as pilot areas for rural superfast broadband networks.
Large parts of the Highlands and north-east Scotland have been cut off, with the main route - the A9 - shut in several places.
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Located in the far north of the Scottish Highlands, the area encompasses around 2000 sq km of mountain, peatland, beach, forest and coastline across west Sutherland and on to the north coast.
However over the full year to June, the Aberdeen-based title - which sells across the north-east and the Highlands - saw sales fall 3% to 68, 700 copies on the average day.
On the property front, the lowest house price to earnings ratio is in North Ayrshire, while Edinburgh and the Highlands have the highest ratio.
In October 2010 Chancellor George Osborne named North Yorkshire, along with Cumbria, Herefordshire, and the Highlands and Islands, as pilot areas for rural superfast broadband networks.
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Maureen Macmillan said women in some parts of the north find it hard getting civil legal aid.
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