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These pictures show the trees on the Ness Islands which had to be cut down by contractors working for Highland Council.

Public access to the area was denied with the gates, at the General's Well on Bught Road and on Island Bank Road, locked for two days to allow the essential work to be carried out.

The area has since been reopened now that the project has been completed with the tree trunks still lying on the ground.

One of the trees was a large larch tree which was dead and overhanging a public footpath.

Related article: Ness Islands on the River Ness in Inverness are now closed for two days to allow a large dead larch tree which is overhanging a public footpath to be felled

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