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For the second year running, Golspie High School’s fundraising public speaking evening Pure Words is to be held at Dunrobin Castle.

The couple behind the fundraising Walk for Emilia in Dornoch last Saturday say the amount raised has “massively exceeded” their expectations.

Officers are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road crash on the A9 around 7.25pm yesterday

Jamie Macleod from Skerray, a graduate of North Highland College UHI, has been named as winner of the Young Highland Chef of the Year competition.

Without doubt, It has been the spookiest Durness Halloween Festival yet.

A Golspie businessman is organising a high-powered meeting in a bid to come up with a plan to attract more visitors to stay for longer in the village.

Edderton Hall held a double celebration last Friday to mark the hall’s 30th anniversary and the official opening of a new play park next to it.

It has taken years of research including two trips to France and Belgium.

It was only a month ago that a North Country Cheviot ram from Sutherland’s Torrish Estate fetched a record-breaking £10,000 at market.

Operators of a Sutherland charity shop have hit out at a thief who made away with jewellery and other items.

Family and friends gathered in the Rogart Hall last month to say a fond farewell to Alan Macdonald, Ballinreach, who died on September 25, aged 73.

A DORNOCH-based photography student is set to stage an exhibition at the start of next month.

WHEELCHAIR users will be able to explore the west coast more thanks to a big-hearted conservation group.

THE programme for this year’s Blas Festival has been launched hot on the heels of the Royal National Mòd which ended last Saturday.

EDITH Traill (Daws) has died aged 96 in The Meadows Nursing Home.

THE village of Bettyhill is very different from the equally diminutive settlement of Little Plumstead in the flatlands of Norfolk.

THIS year’s Highland Halloween Festival in Durness, organised by local hairdresser and artist Philipp Tanzer, kicks off tonight.

THE eldest daughter of a famous climber who died on a Sutherland peak with a fellow mountaineer, is to scale the same hill that claimed them.

Yesterday, a rare bottle of single malt Scotch whisky from the closed distillery of Brora was sold for £54,450.

Volunteers travelled from as far as Golspie and Invergordon last Sunday in a community effort to help clear the Carbisdale Woods trails.