A CALL for the current review of the four primary schools in Wick to be postponed has been rejected by a Caithness councillor.
THE world’s biggest private luxury cruise liner caused a flurry of excitement when it arrived on the shores of Caithness on Thursday (June 16).
LOCALS whose lives have been touched by cancer are being invited to play a key role in the county’s Cancer Research UK Relay for Life. The organising…
A YOUNG local woman has set up a Thurso-based business that uses complementary therapy to help improve the performance and mobility of horses as well…
FIVE players have declared their short-term futures are with Wick Academy by putting pen to paper.
CASTLETOWN and Swifts need to sharpen up their acts if they are to retain their County League first-division status.
A LOCAL farmer has died while working with cattle on his holding near Halkirk. Sandy Banks (64) was found lifeless in a field on Sour Farm on Monday…
DUNBEATH and District Day Care Centre recently received a cheque for £8000 from the Caithness Landward discretionary budget to assist with the costs of…
IN a letter to last Friday’s Groat Morris Pottinger bemoaned the future proliferation of trees and feared for the future of Caithness.
LOCAL MP John Thurso has teamed up with TV presenter Angela Rippon to support this year’s Carers Week.
THURSO Bowling Club has enjoyed a double success in the district finals of Bowls Scotland.
IT must have been the late Nancy Sinclair who started the vogue in the North for adopting French to name a restaurant – itself a French word – when she…
CONTROVERSIAL Wick community councillor Laurel Bush has quit his post – branding the group a “corruption of democracy”.
A LOCAL trade union representative has claimed enterprise officials in Caithness are “not pulling their weight” when it comes to renewable energy.
A WICK father was “almost physically sick” and his wife “devastated” when they discovered their son’s grave had been vandalised – just days after the…
NOT again! It cannot possibly be that time of year again. For goodness sake, we have only just managed to steer ’Er Indoors slowly and painfully out of…
THE Caithness and Sutherland Seniors’ Golf Society visited Lybster Golf Club last Wednesday for the second of three meetings on nine-hole courses, having…
WICK Academy midfielder Sam Mackay has signed a new two-and-half-year contract with the club. The 22-year-old, who is considered one of the brightest…
A CAITHNESS artist is to receive an MBE for his tireless efforts to promote the arts in the county.
IT started with a predictable rant. The leadership of the Kirk’s General Assembly, it was claimed, was “spineless” and “dithering” on the controversial…