Alan Hendry

5 days ago | johnogroat-journal.co.uk | Alan Hendry

Applications are open for a funding programme that will help to foster “resilience and innovation” within communities in the Highlands. The Highlands and Islands Climate Hub is working in partnership with Highland Third Sector Interface to deliver the Community Led Local Development Fund on behalf of the Highland Council Community Regeneration Fund. Community-led local development gives communities the power “to tackle local challenges”. Small grants of up to £10,000 are available.

5 days ago | northern-times.co.uk | Alan Hendry

Champion surfers Phoebe Strachan and Craig McLachlan will be aiming to retain their respective open titles when the Scottish national championships return to Thurso East this weekend. They are again among a strong contingent from Thurso-based North Shore Surf Club taking part in the 50th anniversary championships which kicked off yesterday and runs until Sunday. Strachan took first place in the women’s contest in 2024 for the fourth time in a row and the fifth time altogether.

6 days ago | johnogroat-journal.co.uk | Alan Hendry

A campaign group has called on Highland Council to take account of the wellbeing of rural residents in Caithness who are “under attack” from onshore wind developments. Save Caithness is asking its supporters to have their say on the local authority’s draft Caithness Area Place Plan, which seeks to “capture priorities” as part of “future masterplanning for the area”. The group insists “most residents of Caithness don’t want to see any more turbines”.

6 days ago | johnogroat-journal.co.uk | Alan Hendry

The right to fair and accessible healthcare is “being wilfully denied to people in Caithness”, it has been alleged. Caithness Health Action Team (CHAT) insists there is “overwhelming evidence” to back up that claim and says it will no longer be “fobbed off” with excuses. It argues that forcing the vast majority of expectant mothers to travel to Inverness to have their babies has been a deliberately retrogressive step and “is no longer defensible”.

1 week ago | inverness-courier.co.uk | Alan Hendry

Simon Robinson and his partner Sarah Woolley helped hundreds of women and children from Ukraine to get out of the war-ravaged country. They endured so many air-raid alerts during the course of their humanitarian efforts that when they returned to the UK the noise of a passing helicopter or ambulance would make them jump.