Forres Local 
Food lovers and families can look forward to a new market event that is set to bring delicious street food and fun to Forres. Hot off the heels of the success of the Forres Family Christmas Market, the Mother’s Day Market will take place on Sunday 30 March from 10am to 4pm at the Old … Read more
Are you a young person who would like to get hands-on with professional recording equipment and learn about video and audio production? A new oral history project has been launched to not only record historical memories for posterity, but also to bring older and younger generations together. Forres Local has been awarded funding to acquire … Read more
A politician says local people will be asking “serious questions” as to why local enterprise bosses have spent nearly £150,000 on brick paving at Forres’ enterprise park. The costs were revealed after MSP Douglas Ross asked Highlands and Enterprise a series of questions surrounding the decision to remove the grey stone ‘chuckies’ that divided the … Read more
Two paintings which have hung in the Forres Tolbooth for nearly 200 years have been restored. An invited audience heard from Forres Heritage volunteer Alex Ross, historian Yvonne Findlay, and restorers Sophie Percival and Gail Egan, about the paintings’ history and the work to bring them back to their former glory. The Tournament and The … Read more
The Falconer Museum in Forres could be set for a new chapter as ambitious proposals to reopen the historic institution under independent governance are revealed. A newly developed business model has outlined that a sustainable future for the museum is possible, if a new operating body is established. The reports were produced by Culture … Read more
A community-driven currency that once thrived in Forres has been relaunched. LETS, or Local Exchange Trading System, alows people to buy and sell goods and services by swapping skills rather than cash. And this time round, it is broadening its reach to the whole of Moray, and has been rebranded New Moray LETS. The relaunch … Read more
Forres area artists are being invited to apply for a cultural art exchange program which could take them to the town’s sister city in sunny Florida for a week (flight and accommodation included). Mount Dora Center for the Arts in collaboration with the Mount Dora Sister Cities Association is seeking artists from the Forres area … Read more
The owner of a popular bar and restaurant in Forres has hit out at the Moray Speyside TBID for including his business premises in a levy scheme where he would be forced to pay even if he didn’t want to take part in it. Gordon Brailsford from the Mosset Tavern said he’s already facing a … Read more
Two separate bystanders have sent in pictures of what they describe as a ‘close-call’ for people who put themselves at risk in the tidal waters of Findhorn Bay. Both have asked to remain anonymous, but said they wanted to show the public how dangerous the sandbanks at the bay can be, especially at very low … Read more
A Forres street food market on Mother’s Day will be an event to take the whole family to, organisers have said, with music, face-painting, amusements, and of course… food. The people behind the massively successful Forres Family Market in December have announced their next event will take place on 30 March, following a suggestion from … Read more