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Lorries cause loads of problems for Caithness woman as they thunder past her home By Gordon Calder
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Updated: 09:19, 20 February 2021
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Barbara MacKay outside her home at Westerdale.
Timber lorries are causing concern for a Caithness woman who says she has endured years of disruption from the vehicles thundering past her house.
Barbara MacKay, who has lived at Westerdale for 15 years, claimed pictures had even been knocked off her walls when the trucks travel past.
And she said it made using the single-track road south of Halkirk a nerve-racking experience.