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Painting The Town

Jeff Zycinski | 17:41 UK time, Friday, 11 September 2009

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Finally, something exciting is happening to the old Woolworths store in Inverness. Regular diary readers may recall my countdown-to-closure posts at the turn of the year. Since early January the store has remained empty with various rumours about its redevelopment so far coming to nothing.

Today, however, I encountered a artist merrily slapping paint on the wooden hoarding that now covers up the side entrance.

"It's part of the art festival," she told me, as I hovered over her shoulder and finally asked her to explain herself, "there's more information about it in the Victorian Market."

I followed her pointing fginger and wandered through the market - but found nothing. I began to wonder if this had been a bi of mis-direction designed to ward off wandering critics.

Not that I really neded to know more. We'd covered the project in our Highland Cafe programme on Wednesday. Artists have been drafted in from all over Scotland to 'Re-Imagine' the city centre. Apparently these outsiders offer a different way of looking at the city.

There's artwork, sculpture, music and various "happenings".

But still no sign of a pic 'n' mix.

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