Thurso, Scotland News

When we moved house a few years ago we needed new beds. We browsed nearly every furniture shop but couldn't find anything decent among the usual trendy clutter.

A RARE plant found only in parts of the Highlands and Islands has disappeared from 75 spots where it once thrived, experts have found.

I read with interest and much enjoyment your excellent article on the toys of Christmas past .

By JOHN ROSS INSIDE the famous Dounreay dome, the champagne flowed. It was 10:52am on Saturday 14 November 1959, a moment that made history and, in the words of the site director, Dr Robert Hurst, turned the eyes of the world to the Caithness plant.

PROFILE trial in the Scottish Highlands will see two Colne men stand accused of raiding six post offices and several other properties in the far North.

The Crown Estate has said the timetable for its leasing of the seabed and installation of renewable energy devices by 2020 remained on schedule.

The fishing boat skippers in Scotland should agitate to change the regulations under which they must function.

A 70-year-old grandfather is arriving in Shetland today at the end of a 900-mile trek to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

THREE people were killed after a train and a car collided at a level crossing in the far north of Scotland.

CRUSHED BEYOND RECOGNITION: The Nissan Micra, in which three people died, lies beside the railway line at Halkirk.

AFTERMATH: The Nissan Micra, in which three people died, beside the railway line at Halkirk.

Three people have been killed after a train hit a car at a unmanned level crossing in the Highlands where a pregnant mother was seriously injured seven years ago.

An investigation was under way last night after three people died when their car collided with a train at a level crossing in the Highlands.

ALMOST half of A 200,000 compensation awarded to school pupils and staff across the Highlands and Islands over the last five years was paid to just two teachers by Western Isles Council.

A man has died in an accident while carrying out maintenance at a wind farm. It is understood the man, named by police as Colin Sinclair, 27, from Thurso, was working high up on one of the turbines but did not fall.

Two former Woolworths stores in Thurso and Wick are to be reopened as clothes shops.

SHEEP farmers had much to smile about yesterday at the Kelso ram sales, with 4,185 tups changing hands at an average of A 569, a rise of A 112 on a year ago.

A well-known Edinburgh author, who once penned a newspaper column based on the theme of sticking up for the over-privileged, is a secret admirer of the wine selection in Lidl.

A retired U.S. Navy captain has been elected national commander of the nation's largest veterans organization.

WITH its picture-postcard coastal villages and majestic mountains, it doesn't take long to see why Arran, more than any other Scottish island, attracts visitors back, time and time again.