Inverness Leisure climbing wall shut after almost 25 years

A publicly-funded indoor climbing wall has closed after almost 25 years in use.

Highlife Highland (HLH) - a charity set up by Highland Council to deliver leisure services - said the facility needed significant investment.

It also expected usage to decline now that a new climbing centre, The Ledge, had opened for business.

A petition was raised opposing the closure of the wall at the Inverness Leisure sports complex.

In February, HLH said it did not make sense for two charity-run indoor climbing walls to compete against each other for funding.

However, campaigners agued the sites offered different experiences.