Sir – I am acting on behalf of the authorities at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, where over 800 British servicemen are at…
Sir – Voluntary groups, societies, gala committees and fete organisers throughout the Highlands are waking up to new requirements, first to license events…
"FAIR is fowl and fowl is fair", to slightly alter the spelling of the witches’ words in Macbeth. Readers will recall my account of the sad demise (foul…
NIGEL MURRAY, Rogart’s top curler and current leader in the Province League Championship for the Sutherland Cup, went half way to completing the double…
?Thirty one young runners from East Sutherland Athletics Club travelled to Nairn on Saturday for the final of the North District Cross Country League.…
A PETITION containing 700 signatures is to be presented to Dr Michael Foxley, leader of Highland Council’s administration, asking the local authority…
EAST SUTHERLAND councillor Deirdre Mackay had an emergency meeting with Highland Council’s chief executive on Wednesday to try to amend the introduction…
GOLSPIE based charity TYKES (The Young Karers East Sutherland), which supports young carers, is celebrating the award of over £53,000 from Children in…
The Highland Council has awarded a £630,000 grant towards the costs of regenerating the Nigg Energy Park. The grant comes from the Vacant and Derelict…
ELDERLY people in the Highlands are paying thousands of pounds more to live in local authority care homes than in many other parts of Scotland.
Road users are being advised to use caution crossing the A9 Kessock Bridge at present.
Scottish Land and Estates is leading a new defence against wildfires following massive damage and destruction to so much of Scotland’s countryside inflicted…
ANY attempts to ban prayers before local authority meetings in the Highlands will be opposed, insists the councillor who will lead his colleagues in quiet…
POLICE are urging young and new drivers to fully check their driving instructor’s qualifications, after an investigation into unlicensed driving instructors…
Bonar Bridge Community Hall is today celebrating a lottery win of £74,845 thanks to the Big Lottery Fund and its Community Spaces scheme.
THE TRIAL of a Balintore youth charged with attacking a man with a bottle after a dance during Tain Gala Week, began at Tain Sheriff Court today because…
The Scottish National Party has announced its candidates to contest the Sutherland wards at the Highland Council elections in May.
A PLEDGE that no police or fire jobs will be lost when the Highlands’ emergency services are scrapped next year is being sought by the region’s local…
Postal ballot papers were issued today (Friday, 24 February) to the 10,877 voters eligible to take part in the forthcoming Crofting Commission elections…
A village hall in North Sutherland is to be given a makeover following a grant award from the Caithness and North Sutherland Fund (CNSF).