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Caithness councillor faces election expense charges

Caithness councillor faces election expense charges

Landward representative Alex Macleod has confirmed that he stepped down from the council’s ruling SNP group earlier today (Monday) after Northern…


Original Factory Shop look to support Caithness charities

Original Factory Shop look to support Caithness charities

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…


Funding available to clear snow paths

Funding available to clear snow paths

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…


Change at helm of far north business lobby

Change at helm of far north business lobby

NORTH Sutherland Joan Campbell has stepped down after a 12 year stint with the Caithness and Sutherland branch on the Federation of Small Businesses’…


Seven goal demolition puts Academy in pole position

Seven goal demolition puts Academy in pole position

Scorers: Macadie (6, 35, 75, 85, 86) Cunningham (17) Geruzel (50)


Ten councillors to vote against RSPB funding

Ten councillors to vote against RSPB funding

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 to undergo £7 million revamp

Highland Hospice to undergo £7 million revamp

HIGHLAND Hospice is to carry out a £7 million revamp of its in-patient unit in Inverness.


Police probe cable theft

Police probe cable theft

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…


Wick dentist banned for crash

Wick dentist banned for crash

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…


Orkney ferry service to be hit by strike action

Orkney ferry service to be hit by strike action

SHIPPING union RMT has announced details of strike action that will disrupt ferry services between Scrabster and Stromness.


Caithness too good for counterparts

Caithness too good for counterparts

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…


Castletown bookworms observe Reading Hour

Castletown bookworms observe Reading Hour

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.…


Champion night at Latheron annual dinner

Champion night at Latheron annual dinner

LATHERON Agricultural Society staged its annual dinner in the village hall when the silverware from the livestock, industrial, floral art and other sections…


Inbetweeners director now plans film of Gunn classic

Inbetweeners director now plans film of Gunn classic

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…


No feeding required for Iron Horses

No feeding required for Iron Horses

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 launch town centre crackdowns

Police launch town centre crackdowns

POLICE are to crack down on festive anti-social behaviour with two operations in Wick and Thurso town centres over the next few weeks.


Ruan's on form in memorial shield contest

Ruan's on form in memorial shield contest

The Darren Moodie Memorial Shield bowling competition was held in Castletown last Saturday. The winner was Ryan Watt from Scrabster (pictured with the…


The Past in Pictures

The Past in Pictures

Members of Staxigoe Dramatic Club pictured in 1952 – Daidie Plowman, Marie Farquhar, William Farquhar, Maisie Ewing, Ian Swanson, Christine Mowat,…


Thurso backs Lord Leveson on press regulation

Thurso backs Lord Leveson on press regulation

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…


Watten teams battle in indoor final

Watten teams battle in indoor final


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