Seven Highland Council apprentices studying with Moray Firth Training have reached the end of their third year.
IT wasn’t yet 7am and already I’d seen two things that lifted the spirits: first the sun rising into an almost cloudless March sky, then a…
The awards are being organised by Scottish Provincial Press (SPP) to honour the local heroes within our communities and have captured the imagination…
ANDREW de Moray was a towering figure in Scottish history, so it seems fitting that his memorial should rise high above the surrounding Black Isle landscape.…
MACMILLAN nurse Susan Morrison epitomises everything that is good about health care in the Highlands as far as businesswoman Cecilia Grigor is concerned.
INSPIRATIONAL teachers go out of their way to provide support, guidance and encouragement to ensure our children are equipped to achieve their full potential…
STAFF at Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) understand the value of being a good neighbour – they see it in the way people rally…
THEY are better known for their obsession with fictional superheroes but the organisers of the Highlands’ new comic convention are even more passionate…
I HAD often gazed across the Pentland Firth at the low-lying island of Stroma and been met by the blank stare of its windowless, long-abandoned cottages.…
NEIL Gunn’s river was my starting point for an enjoyable morning among the brochs and standing stones of south-east Caithness. Along the way I discovered…
EVERYONE knows that the most northerly part of mainland Caithness – and Britain – is Dunnet Head. But what comes second in the county’s…
YOU know you’re heading for an out-of-the-way spot when even the official signboard calls it the "back of beyond". Not content with that, it announces…
AFTER a few futile weekends of coast-watching – searching for whales and finding none – I decided to turn my back on the sea and head inland.
MONKS, Vikings, noblemen and herring fishers all made their mark on this stretch of Caithness coastline at various points in history. Today, though, I…
I’M not normally one of life’s rule-breakers. But after I’d made it all the way to the old footbridge leading to Melvich beach, only…
WHEN my front wheel began slipping and sliding one way and then the other, and I found myself plunging into mud-filled potholes that were deeper and stonier…
MAYBE it’s the forbidding turret of lonely Lochdhu Lodge, the only notable landmark for miles around; or perhaps it’s the surrounding landscape…
CLACH suffered a heartbreaking exit from the AJG Parcels North of Scotland Cup at Harmsworth Park on Wednesday night as Wick Academy edged a 4-3…
CLACH boss Iain Polworth has made a point of playing down his team’s chances of winning the Highland League title – and he is unlikely…
"I CAN definitely say this is the best job I've ever had," says Ian James. It is also, he is quick to add, the most emotionally demanding.
