John O'Groat Journal  and Caithness Courier
16 May, 2008
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Bruce Sandison writes for the John O'Groat Journal
FEATURES » Beyond the Split Stane
Commercial greed destroying gift of the sea
Published:  09 May, 2008

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.

Wildlife diversity shot to pieces
Published:  25 April, 2008

THE list of creatures that some lairds would to like to kill because they consider them to be vermin gets longer every day.

From cultivation... to devastation
Published:  11 April, 2008

MARCH may have gone out like a lamb, but April has brought back winter with a vengeance. As I write, a fierce snowstorm rages round the cottage.

A city best taken in small doses
Published:  28 March, 2008

YOU don't get much for a £10 note these days, well, certainly not in London.

The death knell of democracy
Published:  14 March, 2008

A RECENT letter from a friend complained that he was dispirited by that fact that our politically-correct society seemed to be heading towards complete madness.

Our ill-equipped troops deserve better than this
Published:  29 February, 2008

HARDLY a day passes without more sad news from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan – conflicts that most people believe we should never have become involved in.

Sickening reality of so-called research
Published:  15 February, 2008

ONE picture in our newspapers recently did indeed speak the proverbial thousand words: a photograph taken in the Antarctic of a dead whale and its calf being dragged into the bowels of a Japanese processing vessel.

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THE BIG VOTE

Should Caithness have bilingual road signs?

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