Caithness Courier headlines for March 30, 2016

A CAITHNESS engineering firm has recruited up to 15 additional employees after securing a major contract to supply support modules for a huge offshore wind project in the English Channel. JGC Engineering and Technical Service Ltd won the seven-figure order from energy giant EoN which is behind the Rampion wind farm.

THE Dunbar in Thurso and the Town and County in Wick are not acting as community hospitals. That has been confirmed by the redesign exercise being carried out by NHS Highland which points out that both hospitals have patients who would be better suited to being looked after in a care home.

A LONG-SERVING NHS manager in the far north retires tomorrow after a 36-year stint working for the service. Pauline Craw, who latterly managed Caithness General and the Town and County hospitals in Wick, has been on phased retirement since the beginning of January.

TWO Chelsea pensioners whose grandfather came from Wick, are keen to traced any relatives from the north. David and Tom Lyall launched the appeal after a chance meeting with Hamish Duncan, chairman of Caithness Amateur Radio Society, in London. He was in the capital to collect an award from the Royal Society of Great Britain.

TWO NHS staff, behind an initiative tackling the high toll of elderly people injured in falls at home, have been shortlisted for a UK-wide award. Christine McArthur and Lynn Siddiqui have been singled out, for their work on developing 'pathways' for falls in parts of the Highlands, including Caithness.

THE pupils and staff of Pulteneytown Academy and South Primary in Wick took part in a number of joint ventures for National Book Week as they get to know each other better, before joining to become Newton Park Primary, later this year.