Farr High News Today

Comparing the opportunities that a tiny 28-pupil school can provide with what can be offered in a city school, isn’t comparing like with like.

Five school leavers from Caithness and north Sutherland have been awarded scholarships from the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm.

The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm Education and Training Fund gives school leavers from Thurso and Farr financial support for STEM studies.

The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm Education and Training Fund gives school leavers from Thurso and Farr financial support for STEM studies.

A student from Portskerra has become the first modern apprentice taken on by a renewables and timber-processing business based in north Sutherland.

A student from Portskerra has become the first modern apprentice taken on by a renewables and timber-processing business based in north Sutherland.

The first school leavers to benefit from the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm Education and Training Fund have received their scholarship awards.

The first school leavers to benefit from the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm Education and Training Fund have received their scholarship awards.

The developers of a wind farm off the north coast of Caithness have reduced the number of turbines by three after taking account of local concerns.

The developers of a wind farm off the north coast of Caithness have pledged that they want the benefits to be "far-reaching" for the local area.