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11-Sep-13, 09:52
Caithness Courier headlines for September 11, 2013
AFTER risking his life by scrambling 150ft down cliffs at Dunnet Head to rescue a collie missing for three days, a climber said it was a miracle he found the dog alive. Mark Muczarles was so concerned when he read on a social networking site, that a sheepdog had gone missing on the north coast, he decided to look for it. He never imagined he would find the working dog, especially when he found it sitting on a cliff, bearing the brunt of high winds coming off the Pentland Firth.
ANSWERS are being demanded, over why money from a failed sculpture initiative is not going towards providing new facilities at one of the county’s top tourist spots. The Dunnet Head Educational Trust is calling on Highland Council to spend cash which was set aside for two sculptures on building new toilets at Dunnet Head.
WICK’S flower baskets group has been given an award at a Scottish event for its efforts in improving the local community. At an awards ceremony in Aberdeen last Friday, Lord Purvis, ambassador for Keep Scotland Beautiful, announced the charity had won a silver gilt medal certificate in the small town category of the Beautiful Scotland Awards.
EMERGENCY services were scrambled, after a man was reported to have plunged several hundred feet off cliffs just south of Wick on Monday evening. The casualty named locally as Graham Bain was treated at the scene by a paramedic before being secured to a stretcher and winched to the top of the cliff. He was taken to Caithness General Hospital in Wick and treated for injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening.
GROUND investigation work to find a solution to a notorious stretch of the A9, which has been described as detrimental to the Caithness economy, will begin in October. Transport Scotland will award a £90,000 contract to geotechnical specialist BAM Ritchies to find a solution that will improve the road at Berriedale Braes.
A PLAN to put yellow lines on a busy section of the main road in Castletown was approved 16 years ago – but was only discovered when council staff moved recently to temporary accommodation in Wick. The traffic order was drawn up and approved in 1997 and amended two years later. But it appears to have been left to gather dust, until it emerged during the council flit to premises in Girnigoe Street while its new £8 million offices are being build in Market Square.
FAMILIES in the far north, who are struggling to put food on the table, will now be able to call upon a newly-launched service to assist them The Thurso Food Bank will open its doors for the first time on Friday and, despite its name, will be available to anyone across Caithness who is finding it difficult to make ends meet.
OPERATORS of a Wick charity shop are appealing for public-spirited folk, who have a little spare time on their hands, to help them raise money for life-saving research. The busy Cancer Research UK shop in Bridge Street needs new volunteers to become the local face of the charity by dealing with customers and helping sort out donated stock.
AFTER risking his life by scrambling 150ft down cliffs at Dunnet Head to rescue a collie missing for three days, a climber said it was a miracle he found the dog alive. Mark Muczarles was so concerned when he read on a social networking site, that a sheepdog had gone missing on the north coast, he decided to look for it. He never imagined he would find the working dog, especially when he found it sitting on a cliff, bearing the brunt of high winds coming off the Pentland Firth.
ANSWERS are being demanded, over why money from a failed sculpture initiative is not going towards providing new facilities at one of the county’s top tourist spots. The Dunnet Head Educational Trust is calling on Highland Council to spend cash which was set aside for two sculptures on building new toilets at Dunnet Head.
WICK’S flower baskets group has been given an award at a Scottish event for its efforts in improving the local community. At an awards ceremony in Aberdeen last Friday, Lord Purvis, ambassador for Keep Scotland Beautiful, announced the charity had won a silver gilt medal certificate in the small town category of the Beautiful Scotland Awards.
EMERGENCY services were scrambled, after a man was reported to have plunged several hundred feet off cliffs just south of Wick on Monday evening. The casualty named locally as Graham Bain was treated at the scene by a paramedic before being secured to a stretcher and winched to the top of the cliff. He was taken to Caithness General Hospital in Wick and treated for injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening.
GROUND investigation work to find a solution to a notorious stretch of the A9, which has been described as detrimental to the Caithness economy, will begin in October. Transport Scotland will award a £90,000 contract to geotechnical specialist BAM Ritchies to find a solution that will improve the road at Berriedale Braes.
A PLAN to put yellow lines on a busy section of the main road in Castletown was approved 16 years ago – but was only discovered when council staff moved recently to temporary accommodation in Wick. The traffic order was drawn up and approved in 1997 and amended two years later. But it appears to have been left to gather dust, until it emerged during the council flit to premises in Girnigoe Street while its new £8 million offices are being build in Market Square.
FAMILIES in the far north, who are struggling to put food on the table, will now be able to call upon a newly-launched service to assist them The Thurso Food Bank will open its doors for the first time on Friday and, despite its name, will be available to anyone across Caithness who is finding it difficult to make ends meet.
OPERATORS of a Wick charity shop are appealing for public-spirited folk, who have a little spare time on their hands, to help them raise money for life-saving research. The busy Cancer Research UK shop in Bridge Street needs new volunteers to become the local face of the charity by dealing with customers and helping sort out donated stock.