News Archive

Action and Adventure For Young People Aged 12.5 to 17

If you're a fan of aviation, action and adventure, love sports and getting to know people then you're in the right place.   Every year nearly 56,000 air cadets and volunteer staff take part in exciting events all over the country.  

Black Saturday Anniversary Flotilla of Boats At Wick Bay

Black Saturday was, as reported at the time, a ‘fearful calamity'.  In Wick Bay, alone, some 37 fishermen lost their lives, with countless more perishing around the coasts.  

High School pupils furnish garden comfort for Bayview Care Home

Residents Bayview care home in Thurso will be able to enjoy the rest of the summer in style thanks to garden furniture won for them by pupils from the local high school.   The Thurso High School pupils successfully competed for £3,000 funding from the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) for the NHS Highland-run Bayview House care home earlier this year.  

Archaeology Dig to start at Iron Age site in Caithness

The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, in partnership with the Yarrows Heritage Trust, are preparing for a fourth season of excavation at the Burn of Swartigill in Thrumster, Caithness, Scotland.   Previous seasons of excavation at the site have uncovered a complex of Iron Age structures, which are providing an important window into Iron Age society away from the monumental architecture of the Brochs.  

Scallywags Nursery At Crossroads Nursery School Near Dunnet Is Saved

You will note that Dunnet & Canisbay Comm.  Council + Caithness Highland Councillors are thanked in this 'Change.org' statement for their successful campaign to avert its threatened closure, at the start of the 2019/20 school year, of this valuable rural facility/service.  

Black Saturday Anniversary Flotilla of Boats At Wick Bay

Black Saturday was, as reported at the time, a ‘fearful calamity'.  In Wick Bay, alone, some 37 fishermen lost their lives, with countless more perishing around the coasts.  

A Look Round The Island In the Stream - Stroma

A short film by Gavin Bird.   The island of Stroma sits in the Pentland Firth between Caithness and Orkney, This once thriving island now lays abandoned baa the sheep that still graze it.  

More Funding Opportunities

Caithness Voluntary Group have just published the following opportunities in their latest newsletter.   Caithness and North Sutherland Fund The CNSFund was established by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, DSRL and Dounreay Stakeholder Group to distribute a £4m funding package to community organisations for projects that will increase the attractiveness of Caithness and North Sutherland as a place to live, work and invest.  

Patients can wait up to a year or more for knee replacements at NHS Highland

NHS Highland patients can wait for a year or more for a knee replacement, according to figures released to Labour MSP David Stewart under Freedom of Information.   Mr Stewart, who represents the Highlands and Islands and is Scottish Labour's Shadow Health Minister, asked the health authority for the figures after two separate constituents complained that they were facing a wait of up to a year or more to get an operation.  

Fostering and adoption stats for 2018/19 out now

The Care Inspectorate have just published the annual report on fostering and adoption services in Scotland between 2018-19.  These services continue to perform well, with 90% of fostering services and 95% of adoption services evaluated as ‘good' or better by our inspectors.