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The swarm

The swarm

How the small-but-mighty midges stopped a train By Anna MacRae MacDonald They have cut short many a walk, the midges, but did you know that they also stopped a train? An actual passenger train! It was the north-bound express engine pulling ten carriages, intending to complete its usual route through

The Spinningdale Cotton Mill

The Spinningdale Cotton Mill

It was built in 1792 by George Dempster of Skibo with the aim to improve social and economic conditions in this area and as an alternative to clearing lands for sheep. By Lynne Mahoney It’s hard to imagine what people in 1792 thought when they first saw the ambitious

Repopulation

Repopulation

How to tackle the depopulation in our area? With the new parliamentary team preparing a paper on repopulation in Sutherland and Caithness, crofting is very much at the heart of the question. by Russell Smith Depopulation has been a problem for Sutherland for a long time now. Various official figures

The farewell

The farewell

Release date: 2019 | Country: USA, China | Running time: 100 min | Genres: Comedy, Drama | Director: Lulu Wang Starring: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo | BBFC PG  By Jack Weir Lulu Wang’s The Farewell stars Awkwafina as Billi, a Chinese-American woman becoming accustomed to her eastern culture after years living in New

A most intriguing library

A most intriguing library

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig by Liz Treacher, Author Imagine if, somewhere between life and death, there is a library with shelves that go on for ever. And every shelf contains books describing every different life you might have lived... Intrigued yet? I’m sure you are, because we

Lord Mac Haw Haw

Lord Mac Haw Haw

Few Scots ever admitted to listening to German propaganda radio broadcasts during the Second World War. A fewer still realized that the original Lord Haw Haw was a disgraced former officer from the Seaforth Highlanders.  By Paul Cowan Norman Baillie-Stewart was jailed in the Tower of London after being caught

Second World War pillboxes

Second World War pillboxes

Eighty years ago, in 1940/41 more than 30 anti-invasion concrete structures were built around the Kyle of Sutherland and the Dornoch firth. These were in the form of pillboxes, road blocks and gun emplacements. By Gregor Laing  After the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940, a German invasion of