Ribbon cutting at Whin Park, Inverness

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Cllr Ian Brown hosted a special ribbon cutting to mark the opening of the revamped park after a £500k project to breathe new life into it.

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00:28Three, two, one, four, you all done?

00:34Well done.

00:36Well done.

00:38It looks fantastic, really.

00:40When you see it on paper in the drawings,

00:42you can imagine how it looks when you actually see it.

00:44It's a £500,000 well spent.

00:47I think everyone is extremely pleased

00:49and I think people remember what it was like last year,

00:52but it is now totally different.

00:54It's really, this is now a real destination park.

00:58Obviously, we've invested vast sums of money,

01:00so we'll have to keep investing.

01:01It has to be looked after.

01:03I'd expect in five years' time to look at this exactly like this.

01:07And the concern always is vandalism.

01:10I would hope because it's obviously kids designed this.

01:13This is their design, it's their park.

01:15Hopefully, people have sense and not destroy it

01:18because obviously this is fantastic.

01:20For Inverest to have this now,

01:21that's three destination parks we have again,

01:23which is really good.

01:25Do you have a favourite ride?

01:27At the moment, no.

01:30But I might have to come in when it's dark

01:32and have a little go myself.

01:33I mean, there's no cameras.

01:35Sounds good.

01:44When you come out of the car park,

01:46it just hits you the nice sculpture

01:48and the dance arch.

01:50So it's really great to see all the kids having so much fun on it.

01:54I think they got involved in the early stages of what they wanted

01:58and then they were able actually to choose one of the designs that they wanted

02:02and we developed that a little bit further with the help of the input from the council,

02:08the hiring council as well.

02:10So what's really important is that they have their say.

02:13But often they don't know what they don't know.

02:16So we have to sometimes put some little surprises in and some little experiences in

02:20that actually gives it a novelty when they get to the site.

02:25So there are little surprises around the dance arch,

02:29which has got a lot of different games on it.

02:31So you push the button and you don't really know what to expect

02:34and those games can get changed regularly

02:37so that there's a new experience for kids to come.

02:39We also have a steering wheel on the boat,

02:42which has got different sounds and different noises coming through it.

02:46So again, it's a little bit of a surprise

02:48and a bit different for kids to experience.

02:51What's your first impressions of Wind Park?

02:54It looks really, really colourful.

02:56It looks like it has a lot of brand new to it.

03:02Probably...

03:05Need to play on everything!

03:08Yeah.

03:09We're going for Wind Park in the West!

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