Landward representative Alex Macleod has confirmed that he stepped down from the council’s ruling SNP group earlier today (Monday) after Northern…
STAFF at The Original Factory Shop in Thurso and Wick are on the look-out for a local good cause to be their charity partner for 2013 as part of the retail…
THE Highland Council has written to all community councils to let them know that assistance will be available to any communities who wish to help clear…
NORTH Sutherland Joan Campbell has stepped down after a 12 year stint with the Caithness and Sutherland branch on the Federation of Small Businesses’…
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TEN councillors have confirmed that they will vote to block a decision to hand out £10,000 public funding for a peatland project in Caithness and…
HIGHLAND Hospice is to carry out a £7 million revamp of its in-patient unit in Inverness.
POLICE are investigating the theft of a 500m drum of three-cored 16mm copper cable with distinctive violet coloured outer casing. It was taken some time…
A DENTIST who practises in Wick but lives in Nottingham was banned from driving after Inverness Sheriff Court heard he overtook a line of vehicles including…
SHIPPING union RMT has announced details of strike action that will disrupt ferry services between Scrabster and Stromness.
A HEALTHY audience recently attended Thurso Squash Club to watch the county’s top players in the opening tie of the Caithness versus Orkney intercounty…
PUPILS at Castletown Primary School celebrated St Andrew’s Day with a good book as part of an initiative that involved school kids across Scotland.…
LATHERON Agricultural Society staged its annual dinner in the village hall when the silverware from the livestock, industrial, floral art and other sections…
WIDELY considered to be one of the finest Scottish literary works of the 20th century, The Silver Darlings is set to be turned into a film which could…
MANY a crofter had a horse in the barn or the stable. No feeding required, it was a British Anzani Iron Horse. I do not know when the Anzani Iron Horse…
POLICE are to crack down on festive anti-social behaviour with two operations in Wick and Thurso town centres over the next few weeks.
The Darren Moodie Memorial Shield bowling competition was held in Castletown last Saturday. The winner was Ryan Watt from Scrabster (pictured with the…
Members of Staxigoe Dramatic Club pictured in 1952 – Daidie Plowman, Marie Farquhar, William Farquhar, Maisie Ewing, Ian Swanson, Christine Mowat,…
FAR NORTH MP John Thurso is at loggerheads with Prime Minister David Cameron over the future of press regulation in the wake of the Leveson report into…