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Three year deal for Shin Open angling competition

Three year deal for Shin Open angling competition

?Scottish Sea Farms has pledged a three year sponsorship deal to support Lairg Angling Club’s annual Shin Open fishing competition, being held this year…


Lochinver cafe with a mission to deliver

Lochinver cafe with a mission to deliver

?A community business is providing an appetising new future for an important building in Lochinver. The relaunch of the Lochinver Mission Building…


Helmsdale man will captain world's first commercial space flight

Helmsdale man will captain world's first commercial space flight

Test pilot Dave Mackay, who grew up in Helmsdale, is set to make history as the captain of the world’s first commercial flight into space.


Five-year-old Xander walks for Marie Curie

Five-year-old Xander walks for Marie Curie

?Five year old Xander Shanks from Dornoch is one of many adults and children who have signed up for Marie Curie Cancer Care’s summer evening walk at the…


Bill MacDougall, Golspie

Bill MacDougall, Golspie

Bill was born in 1925, the youngest of a family of four from Oban. All his siblings predeceased him, but alive and well and present at the funeral in…


Bridge Hotel on market

Bridge Hotel on market

?The Bridge Hotel, Helmsdale, is on the market, at a guide price of £925,000. The hotel was originally built as an Inn in 1816 and has recently undergone…


Gordonbush Windfarm construction traffic on 'dummy' run

Gordonbush Windfarm construction traffic on 'dummy' run

This is one of the trailers which will be used to take construction materials, such as turbines and blades, to the Gordonbush Windfarm site.


Amanda goes 500 miles for Hospice

Amanda goes 500 miles for Hospice

?Highland Hospice’s Community and Events Fundraiser Amanda Mackay - who grew up in Kinlochbervie - is preparing for the challenge of a lifetime, as she…


Macbeth comes to Clashmore

Macbeth comes to Clashmore

?A new production of Macbeth is coming to the Carnegie Hall, Clashmore, on Tuesday, July 19, which will feature the audience as guests at a banquet.


Lairg Learning Centre Mayfest Winners

Lairg Learning Centre Mayfest Winners

?These are the winning entries in the recent May Fest poetry and prose competition held at the Lairg Learning Centre. There were over 30 entries and all…


Dornoch couple benefit from insulation scheme

Dornoch couple benefit from insulation scheme

?A couple from Dornoch are among householders in the north who are feeling the benefit of a Scottish Government programme to make their homes warmer and…


Babcock engineer seconded to North Sutherland regeneration group

Babcock engineer seconded to North Sutherland regeneration group

?A novel approach in combining the skills of the private and public sectors is being tried in Caithness and North Sutherland. A senior project manager…


Robbie the Pict auctions Runrig gold disc

Robbie the Pict auctions Runrig gold disc

?Robbie the Pict has decided to part with his only Gold Disc to help raise the necessary costs of launching a new festival on the Isle of Skye on July…


Remarkable feat for Horses Help Heroes team

Remarkable feat for Horses Help Heroes team

A remarkable challenge of eight wounded servicemen and their support crew to raise money for services' charities, by driving a horse-drawn replica First…


David Richardson in new role

David Richardson in new role

David Richardson, of Clashmore, Dornoch, has been appointed Development Manager for the Highlands and Islands for the The Federation of Small Businesses.…


School trips teach pupils valuable life skills, Kinlochbervie rector says in prize-giving address

School trips teach pupils valuable life skills, Kinlochbervie rector says in prize-giving address

The effort and expense involved in taking pupils on residential school trips is well worth it, particularly for remote schools, a Sutherland head teacher…


Local coaches in Hydro Pro-Am

Local coaches in Hydro Pro-Am

SIX clubgolf coaches from Sutherland travelled to play in the clubgolf Scottish Hydro Pro-Am held over the Spey Valley Golf Course on Monday of last week.…


New shirt sponsors announced

New shirt sponsors announced

BRORA Rangers announced this week that CRC Evans Offshore will be the club’s new shirt sponsors.


Big break for Katie as warm-up for JLS

Big break for Katie as warm-up for JLS

A YOUNG Sutherland singer, songwriter and guitarist has been chosen to open the JLS and Olly Murs concert at Ross County’s Victoria Park Stadium in Dingwall…


North Coast Leisure Centre celebrates Leader grant award

North Coast Leisure Centre celebrates Leader grant award

Managers of the North Coast Leisure Centre at Bettyhill are celebrating the award of a £54,180 grant from the Leader Programme. The funding will go…


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