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Defeat leaves Academy challenge looking bleak

04 December 2013
Defeat leaves Academy challenge looking bleak

Defeat leaves Academy challenge looking bleak

04 December 2013

His team has taken only one point from their last three games and are four points behind pacesetters Brora Rangers and Formartine United.


Gibson backs campaign against Castletown pharmacy

01 December 2013
Gibson backs campaign against Castletown pharmacy

Gibson backs campaign against Castletown pharmacy

01 December 2013

LOCAL MSP Rob Gibson visited the Castletown surgery to support the campaign against plans by a Glasgow businessman to set up a pharmacy in the village.


Council takes up cudgels against pay day loan companies

01 December 2013
Council takes up cudgels against pay day loan companies

Council takes up cudgels against pay day loan companies

01 December 2013

HIGHLAND Council is to highlight its "total opposition" to the high-cost, short-term credit offered by pay day lending companies and the misery spiralling…


Senior official bows out

30 November 2013
Senior official bows out

Senior official bows out

30 November 2013

A SENIOR Highland Council official is to retire early next year. Neil Gillies, who is the local authority’s director of transport, environmental…


SNH sets stall against Strathy South wind farm

30 November 2013
SNH sets stall against Strathy South wind farm

SNH sets stall against Strathy South wind farm

30 November 2013

A PROPOSED 47 turbine wind farm at Strathy South in the heart of the Caithness and Sutherland Flow Country is being opposed by Scottish Natural Heritage…


Big thumbs down for Castletown pharmacy plan

22 November 2013
Big thumbs down for Castletown pharmacy plan

Big thumbs down for Castletown pharmacy plan

22 November 2013

A PLAN to set up a commercial pharmacy in Castletown should be withdrawn "with immediate effect" until a review is carried out by the Scottish Government.


Danger warning when turbine parts take to Caithness roads

20 November 2013
Danger warning when turbine parts take to Caithness roads

Danger warning when turbine parts take to Caithness roads

20 November 2013

PLANS to transport huge blades and towers around most of Caithness for a wind farm development at Stroupster could cause traffic chaos and be "quite dangerous",…


Castletown pharmacy plan ‘threat’ to GP practice and 19 jobs

08 November 2013
Castletown pharmacy plan ‘threat’ to GP practice and 19 jobs

Castletown pharmacy plan ‘threat’ to GP practice and 19 jobs

08 November 2013

A PLANNED pharmacy in Castletown could put the local GP practice and dispensary at risk and result in a threat to 19 jobs.


Rolls-Royce delivers major pledge on Caithness jobs

30 October 2013
Rolls-Royce delivers major pledge on Caithness jobs

Rolls-Royce delivers major pledge on Caithness jobs

30 October 2013

THE FAR north economy has been given a huge shot-in-the-arm with confirmation that the operators of the Vulcan nuclear submarine site are lining up work…


Family’s broken link with relatives in Canada is restored

27 September 2013
Family’s broken link with relatives in Canada is restored

Family’s broken link with relatives in Canada is restored

27 September 2013

A CAITHNESS family and their Canadian relatives have been reunited "completely out of the blue" after losing contact for almost 100 years.


Fire control rooms revamp sounds alarms

27 September 2013
Fire control rooms revamp sounds alarms

Fire control rooms revamp sounds alarms

27 September 2013

NORTH lives could be put at risk by "wholly unacceptable" plans to close the fire control room in Inverness.


Mother speaks of pain following son’s death

27 September 2013
Mother speaks of pain following son’s death

Mother speaks of pain following son’s death

27 September 2013

A MOTHER this week spoke of the heartache she and her family have endured since her son was killed in a fight in Canada over a year ago.


Concern over plunge in Dunnet Head guillemot numbers

25 September 2013
Concern over plunge in Dunnet Head guillemot numbers

Concern over plunge in Dunnet Head guillemot numbers

25 September 2013

THE number of common gulliemots at Dunnet Head has fallen by 45 per cent in the past 13 years.


'I got it wrong on transport cuts'

20 September 2013
'I got it wrong on transport cuts'

'I got it wrong on transport cuts'

20 September 2013

A CAITHNESS Highland Councillor, who is fighting to reverse school bus charges for local pupils, "got it wrong" when he voted for cuts of £100,000…


Nurse put career on line to steal cash

20 September 2013
Nurse put career on line to steal cash

Nurse put career on line to steal cash

20 September 2013

A LOCAL nurse has “a huge shadow” hanging over her career after she admitted stealing £4600 from a friend’s bank account.


Couple behind plan for gin distillery deny 'hidden agenda'

13 September 2013
Couple behind plan for gin distillery deny 'hidden agenda'

Couple behind plan for gin distillery deny 'hidden agenda'

13 September 2013

A GIN distillery in Dunnet is being proposed in the wrong place and could lead to the industrialisation of the centre of the village.


Fears sell-off of Royal Mail will be 'devastating' for rural areas

13 September 2013
Fears sell-off of Royal Mail will be 'devastating' for rural areas

Fears sell-off of Royal Mail will be 'devastating' for rural areas

13 September 2013

PLANS to privatise Royal Mail will have a "devastating" impact on rural areas such as Caithness, it has been claimed.


Motorsport newcomer gears up for first race

06 September 2013
Motorsport newcomer gears up for first race

Motorsport newcomer gears up for first race

06 September 2013

CAITHNESS woman Ashleigh Morris is to take part in her first competitive motor race at Knockhill next weekend – just four months after getting involved…


Anger over ‘secret’ bomb-grade fuel shipment to US

30 August 2013
Anger over ‘secret’ bomb-grade fuel shipment to US

Anger over ‘secret’ bomb-grade fuel shipment to US

30 August 2013

DOUNREAY’s owners have kept plans to ship a consignment of bomb-grade nuclear fuel from the site to America under the radar, according to an anti-nuclear…


Bid to overturn new school bus charges

28 August 2013
Bid to overturn new school bus charges

Bid to overturn new school bus charges

28 August 2013

A CALL is being made for Highland Council to reverse new transport charges which were introduced this year for some school pupils.


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