Caroline McMorran

6 days ago | northern-times.co.uk | Caroline McMorran

A Durness author and fundraiser is eagerly awaiting the delivery of her fourth book from the printers. Mary Mackay is hoping to have copies of ‘A Collection of Highland Memories’ in time for tomorrow’s Marty Mackay Memorial Fund Sponsored Cycle/Walk 2025. The fundraising event was set up in 2011 following the death of her son, Marty Mackay, in 2010 from kidney cancer, aged just 43. The walk and cycle have been held each year since, except during the Covid pandemic in 2020.

6 days ago | johnogroat-journal.co.uk | Caroline McMorran

A Sutherland community council is taking drastic action in a bid to get rid of a member who is said to be “disruptive” and “behaves like a “football hooligan”. Ardgay and District Community Council (A&DCC) is to dissolve in the hope of reforming without member Samantha Kane, owner of Carbisdale Castle. A motion was passed at the group’s monthly meeting in Ardgay Hall last night when it was agreed to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting shortly to dissolve the council.

6 days ago | northern-times.co.uk | Caroline McMorran

Rogart Community Council has decided how it will spend legacy funding from Gordonbush Wind Farm. The community council will use the £200,000 offered to purchase the parish’s historic St Callan’s Church and also to help fund a complete rebuild of the village’s dilapidated Corrie Play Park. The 35-turbine Gordonbush Wind Farm in Strath Brora, developed by Scottish and Southern Electricity (SSE,) became operational in 2012.

6 days ago | northern-times.co.uk | Caroline McMorran

Two Sutherland community councils are at odds over how much funding each should receive from a wind farm that has been approved but is yet to be built. Rogart Community Council chairman Frank Roach told the group’s meeting earlier this month that discussions had taken place with Lairg about how to share the funding from Chleansaid Wind Farm, but no agreement had been reached.

1 week ago | northern-times.co.uk | Caroline McMorran

It is being billed as a night of “original songs, stories and warmth”. The Doll Hall Community Association is delighted to be hosting Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Grace Morton at the hall tomorrow, Saturday, April 19 from 7pm-10.30pm. The Doll Hall event is part of a three date tour to launch Grace’s debut EP, ‘Ghost’. Brought up in Trotternish on the north-west coast of Skye, Grace spent many childhood holidays with her grandparents Dennis and Isobel Pryde in Brora.