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Nov 10, 2024 · The Caithness Calendar 2025 is available now. The calendar continues to prove popular each year, with copies sold near and far.

Nov 28, 2024 · Highland Council explains its plans to bring more public services more closely together.

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Jan 2, 2025 · Hundreds of revellers took to the streets in Wick to bring in the New Year despite the challenging weather conditions.

Oct 28, 2024 · A rapist from Thurso who abused children and young girls over the course of more than four decades has been jailed.

Dec 28, 2024 · Dunbeath-based publisher Whittles has just released reprints by the much-lauded Caithness author Neil M Gunn – The Other Landscape and The Lost Chart.

Oct 22, 2024 · Betty Corrigal’s grave. The grave of Betty Corrigal lies on moorland high above Scapa Flow on the parish boundary between Hoy and South Walls. Pregnant and abandoned by a sailor, shame and ostracisation by the Hoy community led her to suicide.

Oct 19, 2024 · A recommendation by Wick Town Council’s finance committee that the pay of the town’s carters be reduced by 5s per week had been outvoted by seven to three. The majority of councillors took the view that, while the operators of the town’s dustcarts had seen their wages rise by 127 per cent from the pre-war rate, they were having to contend with rising food prices and the extra costs ...