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08-Jan-14, 16:54
CAITHNESS COURIER HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 8, 2014
EQUIPMENT worth £10,000 has been stolen from Wick High in an episode which has left the school damaged and disrupted. In the early hours of Sunday, the school was raided and valuable items taken, digital cameras and notebook computers bought by the school to help children with special educational needs get through their exams.
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into how a fire started at a five-star hotel in Caithness. Police Scotland are treating the outbreak at Ackergill Tower on Sunday morning as "suspicious".. Emergency services raced to the 15-century castle, two miles north of Wick, after the fire alarm went off at the luxury retreat which was unoccupied at the time. It was reported the cellar was completely destroyed, with significant smoke damage caused through the rest of the building.
A Thurso licensee is going teetotal for a month in support of a charity. Simon Collier of MRC's Newmarket Bar has signed up to Cancer Research UK's Dryathlon which will see him stay on the wagon for the whole of January. He is determined to get all his staff at the cocktail bar on board and is in the process of roping them in to taking part.
HOSPITAL beds in Caithness continue to be blocked by elderly people waiting for a place in a nursing home. NHS Highland has reported eight people are currently staying in hospitals in Thurso and Wick who do not require medical treatment but are not fit to return home. One other patient is waiting for care arrangements to be made at home.
WICK ACADEMY have accepted the decision by the referee to postpone Saturday's far north Highland League derby just 30 minutes before it was due to kick off. But the late call off has enraged Brora Rangers, who maintain a final decision should have been made earlier in the day to prevent the club wasting hundreds of pounds.
POLITICALLY, 2014 will be a landmark year with the spectre of the all-consuming independence referendum in September. The campaigning which has already jaded plenty of prospective voters, will be ramped up several notches more, by Yes Scotland and Better Together as we enter the final nine months before the historic vote, reports the paper's Hugh Ross.
CRUNCH talks about allegedly failing elderly services in the Highlands look set to be held in private which has angered a senior opposition councillor. NHS Highland had agree to debate the standard of adult care it provides after 21 members of Highland Council signed a highly-critical motion last month. The health board took over control of provision from the local authority in the flagship "integration" policy in 2012. It has been praised by Holyrood as setting an example for the rest of Scotland.
A RUNNING track could be built on Highland Council-owned land at Viewfirth playing fields in Thurso. That is the hope of Highland councillors Donnie Mackay and John Rosie who are confident the project will proceed. A business case for the project is being undertaken by the local authority and could be completed by next month.
EQUIPMENT worth £10,000 has been stolen from Wick High in an episode which has left the school damaged and disrupted. In the early hours of Sunday, the school was raided and valuable items taken, digital cameras and notebook computers bought by the school to help children with special educational needs get through their exams.
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into how a fire started at a five-star hotel in Caithness. Police Scotland are treating the outbreak at Ackergill Tower on Sunday morning as "suspicious".. Emergency services raced to the 15-century castle, two miles north of Wick, after the fire alarm went off at the luxury retreat which was unoccupied at the time. It was reported the cellar was completely destroyed, with significant smoke damage caused through the rest of the building.
A Thurso licensee is going teetotal for a month in support of a charity. Simon Collier of MRC's Newmarket Bar has signed up to Cancer Research UK's Dryathlon which will see him stay on the wagon for the whole of January. He is determined to get all his staff at the cocktail bar on board and is in the process of roping them in to taking part.
HOSPITAL beds in Caithness continue to be blocked by elderly people waiting for a place in a nursing home. NHS Highland has reported eight people are currently staying in hospitals in Thurso and Wick who do not require medical treatment but are not fit to return home. One other patient is waiting for care arrangements to be made at home.
WICK ACADEMY have accepted the decision by the referee to postpone Saturday's far north Highland League derby just 30 minutes before it was due to kick off. But the late call off has enraged Brora Rangers, who maintain a final decision should have been made earlier in the day to prevent the club wasting hundreds of pounds.
POLITICALLY, 2014 will be a landmark year with the spectre of the all-consuming independence referendum in September. The campaigning which has already jaded plenty of prospective voters, will be ramped up several notches more, by Yes Scotland and Better Together as we enter the final nine months before the historic vote, reports the paper's Hugh Ross.
CRUNCH talks about allegedly failing elderly services in the Highlands look set to be held in private which has angered a senior opposition councillor. NHS Highland had agree to debate the standard of adult care it provides after 21 members of Highland Council signed a highly-critical motion last month. The health board took over control of provision from the local authority in the flagship "integration" policy in 2012. It has been praised by Holyrood as setting an example for the rest of Scotland.
A RUNNING track could be built on Highland Council-owned land at Viewfirth playing fields in Thurso. That is the hope of Highland councillors Donnie Mackay and John Rosie who are confident the project will proceed. A business case for the project is being undertaken by the local authority and could be completed by next month.