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Miller a clear winner in last 10-mile time trial of season

Miller a clear winner in last 10-mile time trial of season

Conditions were pleasant for Caithness Cycling Club’s final 10-mile time trial but a strong headwind on the outward leg made fast times unlikely.


RHODA GRANT: Movement needed on Highland healthcare and rail

RHODA GRANT: Movement needed on Highland healthcare and rail

As the Parliament goes back after the summer recess, I look forward to raising the issues that affect Caithness and the Highlands and Islands.


Maree Todd MSP emphasises the importance of SNP free prescription policy

Maree Todd MSP emphasises the importance of SNP free prescription policy

The SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Maree Todd, highlighted how the importance of free prescriptions during the cost of living crisis.


Anderson and Miller are Wick ‘2 Up’ winners despite mishap

Anderson and Miller are Wick ‘2 Up’ winners despite mishap

Two pairs started Wick Wheelers’ “2 Up” time trial where a team of two ride together sharing the workload at the front of the pair.


Numbers almost double in second week of Noss school bike train

Numbers almost double in second week of Noss school bike train

A new initiative encouraging Noss pupils to cycle to school has taken off in a big way, with 34 children and six adults taking part in week two.


Callum Beattie praises ‘beautiful festival in a beautiful place’

Callum Beattie praises ‘beautiful festival in a beautiful place’

Scottish singing star Callum Beattie has hailed Tunes By the Dunes as “a beautiful festival, in a beautiful place, run by beautiful people”.


‘We are asking the Highland Council to scrap their scheme’ say campsite owners across the north

‘We are asking the Highland Council to scrap their scheme’ say campsite owners across the north

Several campsites across the Highlands have said a new scheme set out by the local authority ‘will not support their businesses’.


Support from HIE ‘a significant step forward’ for Thurso engineering firm

Support from HIE ‘a significant step forward’ for Thurso engineering firm

A local engineering firm is investing in new technology that will help increase business turnover and productivity while cutting carbon emissions.


OUT AND ABOUT WITH RALPH: Morven and me go back a long way, from all directions

OUT AND ABOUT WITH RALPH: Morven and me go back a long way, from all directions

The highest hill in Caithness is now well used, but not everybody approaches it in the same way


EDWARD MOUNTAIN: Highland Council and the Scottish Government has chance to align itself with the public’s priorities

EDWARD MOUNTAIN: Highland Council and the Scottish Government has chance to align itself with the public’s priorities

He says the council can’t ‘carve up the city centre like this and expect everyone else to swallow it without proper consultation’.


Wick cemetery gate code ‘available for those who need it’

Wick cemetery gate code ‘available for those who need it’

Raymond Bremner has been assured that there has been no change to the policy of allowing cars into Wick cemetery for people with limited mobility.


Former Dounreay IT boss spared jail over sex messages to girls

Former Dounreay IT boss spared jail over sex messages to girls

The former head of IT at Dounreay has been spared jail for sending sexual online messages to girls he believed were as young as 12.


Hill Lochs trophy goes to Simpson in penultimate event of season

Hill Lochs trophy goes to Simpson in penultimate event of season

Dounreay Fly Fishing Association held the penultimate event of the 2024 season when 10 members made the climb up to lochs Seilge and Caorach.


Offers over £450,000 sought for 11-bedroom country house in Caithness

Offers over £450,000 sought for 11-bedroom country house in Caithness

Banniskirk House is set in grounds extending to some 22 acres near Halkirk and is said to be in need of refurbishment and modernisation.


New InterCity trains key to encouraging more people to leave car at home

New InterCity trains key to encouraging more people to leave car at home

Moves are under way to replace ageing High-Speed Trains fleet operating on InterCity routes between Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.


Roadworks to start next week at busy Thurso junction

Roadworks to start next week at busy Thurso junction

Roadworks lasting up to three weeks are due to get under way at the start of next week at the busy A9/A836 Toll junction in Thurso.


SAE secures support to deliver more capacity at MeyGen Pentland project

SAE secures support to deliver more capacity at MeyGen Pentland project

Energy firm SAE says it has secured support to deliver more capacity at the MeyGen project.


‘I can empathise with how people suffer’: Callum Beattie chats and sings on visit to Caithness mental health charity

‘I can empathise with how people suffer’: Callum Beattie chats and sings on visit to Caithness mental health charity

Scottish singing star Callum Beattie spoke about the therapeutic value of music when he visited a mental health charity in Caithness at the weekend.


Numbers growing each year as Caithness Half Marathon attracts 76 runners

Numbers growing each year as Caithness Half Marathon attracts 76 runners

There was a great turnout of 76 runners for the Caithness Half Marathon, starting and finishing in Watten, in conditions that were warm but windy.


Highland’s top cop reveals the team targeting County Lines gangs has been expanded

Highland’s top cop reveals the team targeting County Lines gangs has been expanded

Chief Superintendent Robert Shepherd says it is intended to create a ‘hostile’ environment for groups from Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and London.


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