Holborn Head News Today

JEREMY HODGES, a former Groat and Courier editor who now edits the RLS Club newsletter, has been on the Robert Louis Stevenson trail in Caithness.

A WOMAN was found uninjured last night after a Thurso lifeboat crew was called to assist Police Scotland and local Coastguard in the search.

The Thurso RNLI lifeboat, The Taylors, rushed to the scene after family members and the Coastguard were unable to make contact with a lone sailor.

John Davidson explores a promontory fort and sea stack on walk from Scrabster to Holborn Head

Rising 138 feet high from its rocky foundation, relentlessly pounded by waves that surge from the depths of the Minch, Skerryvore lighthouse has provided a beacon of hope for those in peril on the sea for almost 180 years. Built using rosy-coloured granite quarried from the Ross of Mull and shaped into 4300 blocks by a team of 80 stonemasons, it is Scotland’s tallest lighthouse; as elegant in design as it is dangerous to approach. For years, supplies arrived by boat. A perilous journey ...

Photographer James Gunn offers tips on capturing surfing action at Thurso beach By Contributor Published: 09:28, 09 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper A surfer swoops down from the crest of a wave at full speed. Caithness was due to host the Scottish and British surfing championships last year, but both were postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, surfers from all over the UK flocked ...