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Pennyland Litter Pickers

Recently Primary 2 and Primary 6 pupils of Pennyland Primary School in Thurso, buddied up to tackle a serious issue in their local environment - rubbish! Many of the children were shocked at the amount of litter they encountered.   In just 45 minutes 14 black sacks were filled with not only litter but many other items such as a large fluorescent light bulb and a royal mail box.  

Pulteneytown Academy Open Day - A Final Look Round

Pulteneytown Academy will soon be no more when it joins with South School under its new name of Newton Park and moves to a brand new school.   An open day was held to allow anyone including former pupils to have final look around the old school before it gets demolished later this year to make way for a new playing field for the new school.  

High Schools Compete In Rocket Car Competition

Over 140 pupils from Thurso High School, Wick High School, Golspie High School and Tain Royal Academy descended upon North Highland College UHI's ETEC building last week to take part in The Bloodhound Project Model Rocket Car Challenge.  This is a global competition backed by Guinness World Records.  

Rangers show the way on the Peatlands of the Flow Country

Over forty members of the public attended a series of high profile guided walks on the peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland led by the Highland Council Rangers.   Andy Summers, Senior Countryside Ranger said: "We saw lots of exciting wildlife including great views of a peregrine falcon, breeding greenshanks and red-throated divers, dragonflies hunting around bog pools.  

Clowns of the Ocean

Enjoy an illustrated talk on 'An Introduction to Caithness Seabirds' with some coffee/tea & home baking before taking a short walk to view a puffin colony in the Dunbeath area.   3rd June 2016.  

Caithness Health Area Team - CHAT - New Group To Lobby On Caithness Health Matters

Maternity Unit In Crisis Consultants - Too Many Locums A new local lobbying group "CHAT" Caithness Health Action Team has been formed by a group of local Caithness people concerned about a variety of matters affecting health services in Caithness.   These vary from Maternity where many more mothers in recent times are being sent to Raigmore hospital in Inverness, Lack of consultants, Locum cover, Lack of GP's.  

Sun or Hail - Litter Pickers Prevail - Melvich

Just less than a week separated Halkirk and Melvich Primary School's village litter picks but the weather couldn't have been more different.  Both village litter picks were undertaken as part of the schools Eco-studies programme and registered with the Keep Scotland Beautiful campaign and each event received assistance from The Highland Council’s local Countryside Ranger Paul Castle.  

Caithness Ranger Events April 2016

Willow Bees 1 - Wednesday 6th April.  6pm - 8pm.  

Latest Photos Of New Noss Primary School Construction

The latest photo in our gallery for the new Noss Primary school on the north side of the river show it is well on its way to completion.   The new school will replace North and Hillhead primary schools.  

Highland Council Ranger Events 2016

All the walks are led by a Countryside Ranger.  It is important that you think of your own safety and that of any children for whom you are responsible.