FAR North MSP Jamie Stone has made a plea to finance minister John Swinney in a bid to break the deadlock in the Wick High School campaign.

SIR – Gaelic is a beautiful language; spoken, heard, sung and written. My daughter attended the Gaelic-medium playgroup in Thurso for a while and profited by the experience.

FRASERBURGH are the visitors to Harmsworth Park tomorrow as the curtain comes down on Wick Academy's 14th season in the Scot-Ads Highland League.

THE wide golden sweep of Reiss beach has been polluted with oily tar-globules, and a watch is being maintained for seabirds that may have become contaminated.

A ROCK 'n' roll musical with more than a touch of Hammer House of Horror will give Thurso Players' younger thespians something to get their teeth into later this month.

'COME on, then, who do you support? Rangers or Celtic?" That's the question that any Scottish football fan is likely to be asked, as I was in a pub in North London on the evening of the Arsenal v Liverpool Champions League tie.

SENA Leitch has long been interested in Castletown, the village where she was born and has lived most of her life.

I AM seeking information on my ancestors from Wick. I believe they were boat builders and fishermen by trade.

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