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News from the John O’Groat Journal of yesteryear

Caithness residents should check their electoral registration details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions that affect them.

Dounreay bosses are confident the recent industrial action will not have added to the time or cost of decommissioning the site.

Caithness pressure groups heaved a sigh of relief as Highland Council announced today that local respite care will be reinstated for disabled children

With Wick’s Bank of Scotland set to close next year, it has just been announced that Sutherland’s last branch will close in February 2025.

Police Scotland issued an update on the 34-year-old missing Wick man to say he has now been found.

Police Scotland issued a bulletin this morning asking if the public could help trace the whereabouts of a missing Wick man.

Government inspectors have put Dounreay into “special measures” as a result of unresolved safety concerns.

A Caithness charity that supports young carers and a Wick organisation that has developed the town’s campsite were winners at a recent awards event.

Graffiti is not always welcomed in Thurso but a painted message on the pavement highlights a good cause.

A national environmental charity has awarded a Wick man with a Clean Up Scotland Hero award for his efforts to keep the town litter-free.

Reiss Gardening Club’s annual show was well supported, with the usual colourful display of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables.

Pupils at Noss Primary were given medals by a local gardening club as a token of appreciation for all the effort they put into its annual flower show.

A government funding allocation of £40m may change the face of Wick as the council could purchase some of the town’s worst eyesores.

A community councillor in Wick has questioned the time it is taking for a £750,000 consultation, including on the Carnegie Library, to be finalised.

A village lambasted as a “bleak outpost” and a “ghost town” just a year after a transformation plan was launched has turned its fortunes around.

A Thrumster man is taking part in a gruelling Beast Race challenge for a kids’ hospital charity and wants help to hit his funding goal.

With the SNP cutting £500 million from budgets I doubt many readers will worry too much about the cancellation of advertising and marketing campaigns.

James Beeson is cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats (Lejog) to raise funds for a children and young people’s national bereavement charity.

Care home residents in Thurso have been feeling the wind in their hair as they enjoy cruising about the town on a trishaw.