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New attempt to tackle dog-fouling in Staxigoe area as poo-bag dispensers are installed By Alan Hendry Published: 19:23, 14 February 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Pat Ramsay (right) with her husband Grant and local resident Pam Jack after they installed one of the poo-bag dispensers. All three are members of Staxigoe, Papigoe and Noss Resilience Group. Community-led efforts to tackle dog-fouling in and around Staxigoe have been stepped up with home-made poo-bag dispensers being installed at popular wal...

© Supplied by Brodies Dr Betsee Parker, owner of Ackergill Tower, has donated £40,000 to Pultneytown People's Project (PPP). Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An American millionaire has gifted £40,000 to a Caithness community group after opening the doors of her private residence to producers of the Netflix hit drama The Crown. Dr Betsee Parker, an Episcopalian minister and philanthropist from Virginia, bought Acke...

  Article Our success is due entirely to our strong team, says Willie Watt after retiring as Subsea 7 site boss By Alan Hendry Published: 08:15, 10 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Willie Watt ready for another towhead movement from Wick. Picture: Even Kleppa / Woldcam FOR three decades Willie Watt was at the forefront of pipeline bundle manufacture in Caithness, overseeing a series of major contracts for Subsea 7 and its predecessors that have created valuable local jobs and brought hundreds of...

Little auks seen off the Caithness coast among winter wildlife wonders By Contributor Published: 13:52, 20 December 2020 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper A bearded seal spent the day on Thurso river. Picture: Rob Hughes The recent spell of colder weather has brought about the movement of some of the hardier Arctic breeding species of birds into our waters. One such species is the little auk, which comes down from Svalbard, Greenland and Novaya Zemlya, Russia to winter in the North Sea and can be seen off the ...