DESCRIBED as the best team never to have won the Highland Amateur Cup, county league side Wick Groats will be hoping to put that statistic to rest tomorrow.
THERE was a good entry for the Gala Open – sponsored by G. & A. Barnie – at Wick with 67 gents and 12 ladies playing.
Much used in farming in former days, the bushel measure was a round wooden cylinder, flat bottomed, with a roller to go with it to level off the grain…
THE number of passengers who used the Gills and John O’Groats ferries to Orkney last year exceeded those using the Scrabster service for what is…
A YOUNG man who was left paralysed by a rare illness is battling his way back to health and will be in John O’Groats next week on a round-Scotland…
THE 2012/13 Highland League gets under way tomorrow and Wick Academy manager Davie Kirkwood is quietly confident that this season fans will see the Scorries…
And on Wednesday morning, as a huge roar of relief reverberated across the entire park after it was announced Great Britain had won their first gold medal,…
Recently the group found a new outlet for its brightly coloured blanket squares by donating them to the SSPCA Caithness and Sutherland rehoming centre…
THURSO Bowling Club’s ladies rink of Liz Rhodes, Joan Elder, Betty MacDonald and Judy Mowat returned from the national championships in Ayr as the…
CAITHNESS Cycling Club’s Alasdair Washington was on his best form this year to take the veteran title in the North of Scotland 50-mile championships…
SIR – In response to Morris Pottinger’s recent letter to the editor and as leader of the Caithness Biodiversity Group’s wildflower and…
RESIDENTS in Wick who have been plagued by flooding problems for years claim new measures to prevent drainage overflow have failed and are calling for…
FAR north trucking enthusiasts are hitting the road next week in a bid to visit every lifeboat station in the Emerald Isle to raise money for the RNLI…
FAR north revellers have been urged to stay safe at Belladrum 2012 which gets under way this weekend.
AS heavy rain pummelled Caithness on Saturday locals turned up with their umbrellas to watch Titanic sail down Wick’s Bridge Street.
A LONG-established Thurso medical partnership is about to come to an end following what was described as "an exceptionally difficult period".
PRINCE Charles was "absolutely delighted" with the £100,000 restoration of two former flagstone workers’ cottages in Castletown.
THE Duke of Rothesay concluded his tour of Caithness on Monday with a visit to a dairy farm a few miles south of Wick.
Piper Mark Moodie led the walkers – some in fancy dress – as they set off from Princes Street.
Greg Barker said the far north and the Northern Isles will play a vital part in meeting the country’s energy needs, stating the Government is now…