RURAL areas of Sutherland will be among the worst affected by spending cuts certain to be imposed by Highland Council in its next budget, a senior councillor warned this week.

AFTER a four-year absence the Northern Counties women's golf team will return to the Scottish women's team finals in September with a 100 per cent winning record from last weekend's North area divisional finals at sunny Royal Dornoch.

I WONDER if any of your readers can still remember Dr William Wagner Turner and his wife Anna. They are both buried at Assynt. They had lived in Inchnadamph and Dr Turner died in 1948.

THE Ice House, Helmsdale's monumental deep freeze, was once a store for salmon and later a coal-fired fish and chip shop.

A VENTURE set up to provide manufacturing and business experience for senior pupils at Farr High School in Bettyhill has scooped the top award for Scotland in this year's Young Enterprise Scotland company programme finals at Glasgow.

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