Merry Christmas to all our readers and advertisers!

The team at the Northern Times wishes all of our subscribers, readers and advertisers a Merry Christmas!

The newspaper and e-editions will be published as normal next week, with the Northern Times available as usual on Friday.

The website and app will continue to be updated and our offices will be operating with reduced staffing on Monday and Tuesday, December 26-27.

If you have a story or pictures to share, please email editor@northern-times.co.uk.

Letters of up to 300 words can be emailed to the same address.

We'd love to see photos of your Christmas celebrations in Sutherland! Share them with us at the address above – jpg files of at least 1MB work best!

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