AS many parents whose children attend small primary schools may know, the SNP Government has recently established a commission on rural education on Scotland.…
ON a recent visit to Stroma, the birthplace of my maternal grandmother, Isabella Robertson, Sharon and I saw the remains of a very simple threshing machine.…
CONCENTRATION is what Wick Academy need to develop if they are to be a success in the Highland League this season.
TWO people with Caithness connections are now among the 12 board members of High Life Highland, the new arm’s-length organisation set up by the Highland…
A GOAL spree by Chris Sutherland is fuelling Castletown’s revival from a miserable start to their county campaign. The 22-year-old frontman bagged four…
LOCAL musicians dressed as cowboys, ghosts and superheroes took centre stage at the end of Wick’s Pipe Band Week on Saturday.
A YOUNG Caithness footballer has joined Scottish Premier League club Dundee United on a two-year deal.
POLICE are asking for information to help track down a man who has been missing from the Thurso area since Saturday, June 25.
A DOUNREAY worker is celebrating a £30,000 win with the People’s Postcode Lottery – just weeks after signing up to play.
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THE leader of the local authority has written to the Scottish Government seeking a rethink over the lack of a Highland representative on the commission…
A ‘SUPERHERO’ is heading for John O’Groats in a bid to support education in some of the poorest areas of Africa.
A CAITHNESS actress is set to take on one of the most demanding female roles in the history of theatre.
AN unlikely second-half double from player/manager Stewart Ross on Saturday proved decisive as Groats added the Eain Mackintosh Cup to their earlier Wick…
AFTER a lifetime of wandering through the wilder parts of the Scottish Highlands, I thought I knew the insect hazards of the summer season pretty well.
BUILDINGS, or structures which are considered to be of special architectural or historic interest, are listed by the secretary of state for Scotland.
A COMPLAINT about the conduct of four members of the board of management at North Highland College UHI has been thrown out.
THUNDERSTORMS forced the early departure of many who had turned out for the 88th Latheron Show on Saturday.
‘THERE is no such thing as coincidence,” we are often told. Rational mind-sets, it seems, refuse to accept there might be higher or other levels of reality…
WORK is due to get under way early next month on a £20 million redevelopment of Scrabster harbour.