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© PRESS AND JOURNAL 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 A Caithness mum says her autistic son has been “denied his right to an education” after being excluded from school for two years. Sofia Dos Santos and her husband Jo have been battling to maintain 15-year-old Danny’s schooling after he was excluded from Wick High School following an altercation on a bus with another child. Events escalated afterwards into con...

Looking Back – news from the John O'Groat Journal of yesteryear By Staff Reporter Published: 09:46, 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 Stricken crew rescued by Scarfskerry rocket company From the Groat of January 7, 1921 The SS Kentucky, of Copenhagen, had been carrying goods and mails on a voyage from Copenhagen to Boston, USA, when it ran ashore at Skirza Head, Freswick. At the time the sea was too rough for reaching the vessel with a boat, and it increased during the night. But about m...

Vintage John O'Groats photo tells the story of young entrepreneurs By David G Scott  |  Updated: 13:25, 12 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 photograph that nearly ended up in the bin has been carefully restored and tells a tale of how a family dynasty achieved commercial success in John O'Groats. The image showing a young boy was found by Kenny Wilson from East Wemyss in Fife who was raking through a box of his late father's old photographs when he came across it. He almost discarded the aged...

  Article Knitting supremo John Glen's dazzling Christmas jumper proves a winner on Kirstie Allsopp TV craft show By Alan Hendry  |  Updated: 12:50, 11 December 2020 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper FAR NORTH knitting tutor John Glen has been inundated with messages from well-wishers after his dazzling Christmas jumper proved to be a hit on national TV. John was the winning contestant in Monday's edition of Kirstie's Handmade Christmas, the Channel 4 series presented by Kirstie Allsopp, after creating a un...