A CAITHNESS cyclist has pedalled ahead to win the Edinburgh Grand Prix International Sprint – snatching victory on the home straight from a former champion.…
IT was a cold and breezy night for event nine of Caithness Cycling Club’s weekly 10-mile time trial.
Week nine in the Wick Wheelers’ 10-mile time trials saw 19 take part with several first-attenders setting good times.
THE second round of the Ulbster Cup was played at Thurso on Saturday (June 11) with the weather and course conditions being excellent.
SATURDAY (June 11) saw the sun-bathed Reay links play host to the Caithness County Championship.
WICK golfers have not enjoyed the best of weather of late so it was a pleasant surprise for the morning starters in Sunday’s June Medal (June 12) to start…
The Wick Society has been given the “last piece of the jigsaw” in a funding bid to carry out vital upgrade work.
CAITHNESS Samaritans have been praised for the “phenomenal” support they have provided to the area in the last 30 years.
SIR – AS many of you will know it is possible now to have the male Y-DNA tested for the paternal ancestral line. Last year 20 Caithness men were in fact…
A TOURIST has thanked a Caithness bus driver who saved him from being stranded in the Far North. Belgian traveller Raymond Maxwell faced his holiday…
ANTI-nuclear campaigners have hit out at plans to haul consignments of spent nuclear fuel by rail from Caithness to Cumbria.
CAITHNESS Car Club held a round of the 2011 Scottish Sprint Championships at Golspie Kart track last weekend. This well-supported sprint attracted over…
FAST and furious racing was the hallmark of the fourth annual Sannie O’Brien Memorial Banger Derby at Clyth. Near perfect weather attracted a great crowd…
DERELICT but historic fishermen’s cottages at Berriedale are set for a new lease of life after a public appeal raised £600,000 to save them.
SO, at last, the world has come to Wick. Or rather a 644-feet, 12-decked, 43,524-tonne, luxury liner called The World, with 200 multi-millionaire passengers…
IT is the last call for entries to this year’s Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards – and local businesses are being urged to get involved.
BIKE Week starts tomorrow. To mark this auspicious occasion some councillors will be getting on their bikes. At least that is what we were promised by…
MY first friend was Spot, father’s dog, one of an old breed with a shaggy coat, brown and white, heavy and capable of dealing with sheep or cattle without…
A DOUNREAY contractor is facing a six-figure bill after being found liable to pay redundancy to 16 former long-serving shift workers.
CAITHNESS Samaritans have been praised for the “phenomenal” support they have provided to the area in the last 30 years.
