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Boom Boom, It Must Be RockNess

Jeff Zycinski | 20:57 UK time, Saturday, 7 June 2008

News reports warn that the Poles are where a pound will only buy you four Zloty. That could be bad news for the Inverness economy, but not a worry this weekend because the population has expanded to include the thousands of music fans who have arrived for

We live a good couple of miles away from the festival site at Loch Ness but we can hear the boom boom of drums. The yellow road signs are back, advising drivers to head to Dores by way of the southern distributor road, thus avoiding the city centre. Despite that, local supermarkets seem to be doing a roaring trade.

Mrs Z. came back from a shopping trip with some inside information from one of checkout cashiers.

"All they're buying," she said, "is beer and condoms."

That would seem to rule out a population boom next March.

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