Looking Back â news from the John O'Groat Journal of yesteryear
By Features Reporter
Published: 15:56, 23 January 2021
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In 2005, Thurso air cadets Ross Venters, Keith Whitelaw, Brian Robertson and Jamie Munro came second in a Highland-wide ICT Youth Challenge. The group from the 1769 Squadron Air Cadets, known as Team Typhoon, impressed the judges with their presentation at the end of the gruelling five-day 'hot house' final.
Wick lighting 'a disgrace'
From the Groat of January 21, 1921
Wick Chamber of Commerce heard that the lighting and the state of the roads and streets in the town was a disgrace and that electric lighting should have been installed long ago.